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LETTERS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN. 
 
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 By L. D. S. 
 
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 1875- 
 

PREFACE. 
 
 It is with much diffidence that I venture to 
 present the following pages to the Public. Had 
 I seriously contemplated the possibility of being 
 induced to write a book, while we were yet resi- 
 dent in China, I should certainly have taken 
 more care in collecting materials to make it an 
 interesting one. It was, however, only on return- 
 ing to this country that I fully realised how little 
 is known by the world at large of daily life in the 
 far East ; and the oft-repeated question^" Why 
 don't you write a book ? " — ^resulted in the publi- 
 cation of the Letters for whose appearance I am 
 now apologising. 
 
 They are simply those written to my relatives 
 at home, divested of all personal matter not 
 absolutely necessary for carrying on the nar- 
 rative. 
 
 The above explanation will account for the 
 
vi Preface. 
 
 information given being of a somewhat frag- 
 mentary nature, and I can assure my readers that 
 they will only derive from it a very faint idea of 
 the singular manners and customs of that ancient 
 Empire in which for a time we made our home. 
 
 Still more cursory is the glimpse given of 
 Japan and its remarkably ^progressive inhabit- 
 ants ; but I need hardly say more by way of 
 " Prologue " to this small volume. I only hope 
 the novelty of the subject may make amends, in 
 some measure for the demerits of the writer. 
 
 L. D. S. 
 
LETTERS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN. 
 
 LETTER I. 
 
 Hotel de Louvre, Marseilles, 
 February ■z^tk, 187-. 
 
 Here we are, safely across the channel, and 
 feeling very much the better for having slept 
 on a very downy couch, till nearly eleven o'clock 
 this morning ! By the time we got to Folkestone, 
 it became evident that we were likely to have 
 rather a toss, and so we had — more of a side 
 jumble than anything else, but quite enough to 
 disturb the equilibrium of most of our fellow 
 victims. 
 
 I sat on deck most of the time, under a 
 mountain of plaids to keep me warm, but when 
 these failed to do so any longer, I descended to 
 the ladies' cabin, which I found completely 
 occupied by a crowd of wretched mortals, in 
 ' every attitude of woe. 
 
 I need not describe further the charms of the 
 passage to Boulogne, they being only too pain- 
 fully familiar to you. 
 
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 The only excitement during the journey to 
 Paris, was the very common one of keys declining 
 to appear when wanted. 
 
 I dived into my travelling bag with perfect 
 assurance of finding them there, but alas! they 
 were not to be found. 
 
 J. declared no Douanier would pass the formid- 
 able-looking box, F. I. ! Fortunately he was wrong. 
 In spite of its appearance, and the man evidently 
 regarding it with suspicious eyes, my pathetic 
 appeal in behalf of my dresses being left undis- 
 turbed, went to his French heart in a way no 
 Briton could understand, so he accepted my 
 apologies for the missing keys, and passed every 
 thing. 
 
 LETTER II. 
 
 p. AND O . Steamer, i-jth February. 
 
 A Steward has just come to close my window, 
 otherwise, he says, I should have the water in very 
 soon, as it is blowing hard. It must, I think, be a 
 head wind meantime, as the vessel seems to me 
 very steady. I shall however, profit by the 
 warning, and do my scribbling now, in case it 
 should not continue so. 
 
 We slept at the hotel, and came on board at 
 
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 seven o'clock, which we found was quite un- 
 necessary, as we did not sail till, 8.30. It was, 
 however, a glorious morning, so J. and I enjoyed 
 a last walk together up and down the deck, and 
 did not regret our activity. 
 
 The hour of parting came only too soon. Long 
 I watched his figure fading "in the distance, and 
 still longer, I waved a handkerchief from my cabin 
 window in hopes of his seeing it, when my 
 short-sighted eyes had ceased to discern 
 hirn. ... 
 
 Mr and Mrs E. are as kind as possible. The 
 latter began to look, and feel, rather uncomfort- 
 able, so retired below, and will probably remain 
 there for the present. 
 
 I also have taken refuge in my own domain, 
 have arranged my worldly affairs, read the service, 
 (having suddenly remembered that it was Sunday,) 
 and now I can talk to you. In a cabin so small, 
 the luxury of being " Monarch of all you survey" 
 is great, and if 1 have the same good luck in the 
 other steamers, it will seem as if all had combined 
 to make my voyage a comfortable one. 
 
 February 2Zth — Yesterday afternoon it became 
 very dreary, and the vessel rolled a good deal, so 
 no ladies emerged from their cabins. An excel- 
 lent old stewardess took great care of me, and 
 
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 brought me all I wanted, which was not much, 
 for though not- ill, the many partings I had gone 
 through, had brought on rather a serious attack 
 of a malady commonly known as the " Bluest 
 About fourteen hours of sleep, has resulted this 
 morning, in a decided state of mental and bodily 
 convalescence. 
 
 During the night, I was conscious from time 
 to time, that a great deal of rolling, and diving 
 through the heaving billows was going on, but 
 so mercifully am I constituted, the only effect, was 
 to send me off to sleep more soundly than before. 
 
 This morning being wet, the stewardess agreed 
 with me, that getting up to breakfast would be 
 useless, so I shall make my first appearance for 
 the day at dinner. 
 
 Poor Mrs E. is very ill, and hardly able to eat 
 or speak. 
 
 March ist. — Opened my eyes to find it a most 
 lovely morning, which encouraged me to get up 
 to breakfast. Every one looked quite brisk and 
 more inclined to be sociable, for of course, we are 
 all, as yet, generally enveloped in that mist of 
 reserve peculiar to our nation, and engendered, no 
 doubt, by our sombre climate. 
 
 Yesterday I thought Mr E. found me a bore, 
 so instinct pointed out the prudence of giving 
 
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 him as little of my society as possible. To-day, 
 he seems to find me rather agreeable ! Such is 
 the enlivening and happy effect of fine weather ! 
 Let us hope it may continue ! 
 
 With one exception, all the ladies on board are 
 young, and newly married. I have been sitting 
 on deck with Mrs L., a pretty little person, who 
 with her husband, came by the same train to 
 Marseilles that we did. She seems to have been 
 much puzzled by my parting there from J., — what 
 was our relationship, and what the object of my 
 trip to the East ? 
 
 "Were my father and mother in India ? " 
 
 " No." 
 
 " Had I been there before ? " 
 
 " No." 
 
 A solemn pause, while she considered how 
 next to direct the attack, or perhaps waited for 
 me to become communicative, so I at last grati- 
 fied her by giving the desired information. " I 
 was going to China to stay with a near relation," 
 in which statement, I trust you admire the manner 
 truth and ingenuity go hand in hand. 
 
 March Tfd. — We rolled about so much all 
 yesterday, no writing could be done, so I plunged 
 into a novel, and remained there for the day. 
 
 The night before last, Mrs E. came on deck. 
 
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 when it. was tolerably calm, and the sky so clear, 
 that we saw one of Jupiter's moons through my 
 glasses — which a star-gazing fellow passenger 
 says are the finest glasses of the kind he ever saw. 
 
 We passed the Straits of Messina during the 
 night, which was a pity, but owing to these head- 
 winds we are behind our time. The captain 
 expects to be at Alexandria on Saturday morning, 
 so we shall spend the day there, and start per 
 train to Suez at nine o'clock, thereby passing 
 through Egypt in the dark and seeing nothing. 
 
 They say it will be very cold crossing the 
 desert, and that warm garments can, therefore, not 
 be dispensed with till we get into the Red Sea. 
 
 March A^th. — The usual rather violent rocking 
 " on the cradle of the deep " going on, and a good 
 many people still hors-de-combat. We shall rush 
 on shore the instant when we reach Alexandria, to 
 give the invalids as long time as possible to 
 recover, before beginning the next phase of the 
 journey. 
 
 LETTER III. 
 
 p. AND O. Steamer, March \6th. 
 It is not expected that we shall arrive at Aden 
 till Saturday ; but in case of being reduced to- 
 
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 morrow to "■sitting in our bones" I shall write, 
 while it is still moderately warm, the thermometer 
 to-day being only 83" in the shade ! 
 
 As yet, the heat does not trouble me at all : 
 indeed, far from it. Such sunshine makes one 
 quite happy, after the blustry cold week in the 
 Mediterranean. 
 
 The morning we landed at Alexandria was 
 brilliant ; and all the Eastern costumes, the 
 people and tongues of divers nations, combined 
 to create a most novel and animated scene. 
 
 We arrived at 8 a.m., and were immediately 
 sent on shore, amid no end of jabbering and 
 bustle, arising from people of all hues and deno- 
 rainations. Happily a carriage was waiting for 
 us, and conveyed us to our hotel. 
 
 After resting for a short time, we started again 
 and drove all through Alexandria, or rather, were 
 jolted over the streets, which describes more 
 accurately the species of exercise we took on the 
 occasion. It had, however, a most beneficial 
 effect on Mrs E., who revived as soon as she 
 went on shore. 
 
 Shops, markets, Pompey's Pillar, Cleopatra's 
 needle — all were visited, and we enjoyed our day 
 on' terra firma as much as if we had been at sea 
 weeks instead of days. 
 
Letters from China. 
 
 On returning to the Hotel, and enquiring for 
 our friends who were coming via Southampton, 
 we found they had arrived before us, so our party 
 was then complete. 
 
 ,We all dined at the Table-d'-hote, and about 
 6 P.M. re-commenced our journey. The transit 
 across the desert lasted from that hour till seven 
 next morning, by which you will perceive the 
 pace was not dangerous ! Stations are numerous, 
 and at each of them the train stopped about half 
 an hour, that the passengers might drink bad 
 coffee in dreary-looking refreshment rooms. 
 Nothing could be more tiresome ; in spite of 
 which, Mr E. and I managed to extract a good 
 deal of amusement out of the Egyptian mode of 
 transit, and the excitement caused by one of the 
 carriages taking fire, an event, we were told, of 
 very common occurrence. 
 
 On Sunday morning we were afloat again, and 
 since then, have been divesting ourselves gradu- 
 ally of warm apparel out of respect to the ther- 
 mometer at 83*^. 
 
 The days are all as like one another as possi- 
 ble. Breakfast at 8.30, then work or read on 
 deck. Lunch at 12. Deck again. Dinner at 
 4. Again sit on deck till the sun goes down, 
 which it does about six o'clock, when it very soon 
 
Letters from China. g 
 
 becomes dark, and active people walk up and 
 down for the good of their health. Tea takes ' 
 place at seven, and after that Mr and Mrs E., 
 Mrs S. and I, generally play at whist, then to 
 bed between nine and ten. 
 
 The necessity for being up early to secure a 
 bath, prevents one sleeping quite so long as would 
 be desirable in the circumstances. Still, I gener- 
 ally manage to secure eight or nine hours, which 
 enables me to get through the monotony of the 
 day without over-fatigue. 
 
 Since embarking at Suez, the sea has been 
 perfectly calm, and we go along so steadily, 
 no one is ill. 
 
 Nothing can be kinder than my escort, and I 
 have been so cordially adopted by all their party, 
 any feeling of loneliness is rapidly vanishing. 
 
 I have not had the same good fortune regard- 
 ing my cabin on board this steamer, as attended 
 me in the one from Marseilles, having a com- 
 panion who is too delicate to stand an open 
 window, so I have bid farewell to comfort for the 
 present. 
 
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 LETTER IV. 
 
 p. AND O. Steamer, Match loth. 
 
 The voyage begins to be very tiresome, but 
 two days hence, the longest part of it, being that 
 between Aden and Point-de-Galle, is expected to 
 come to an end. 
 
 At Aden most of the passengers went on shore, 
 and I was to have accompanied the' E.'s, had 
 such a torrent of rain not come on, that Mrs S. 
 and I decided to remain on board, which we after- 
 wards regretted, as it was a lovely afternoon and 
 quite cool. We were, however, much amused 
 in watching the natives chattering and diving 
 round the steamer. Numbers of those curious 
 copper-coloured creatures, who hardly resemble 
 anything human, with their hair dyed bright red 
 and standing straight on end, came paddling 
 along in their (own) canoes, as soon as we 
 arrived, calling out " I dive, I dive ; " " Give, give." 
 Many sixpences and threepenny pieces were 
 thrown to them by the passengers, and then down 
 they all went headlong into the water, and re- 
 mained out of sight for an incredible length of 
 time, the canoes meantime being left to take care 
 of themselves, till their amphibious possessors re- 
 
Letters from China. 1 1 
 
 appeared, first holding up the money, and putting 
 it into their mouths, which seem to make excel- 
 lent purses. 
 
 It is said that rain is rarely seen at Aden oftener 
 than once in three years, so we were fortunate in 
 being there when it was enlivened by the refresh- 
 ing influence of a shower, which made it appear 
 rather less arid than I expected. 
 
 The heat is now much greater than we had it 
 in the Red Sea. Still I have managed to catch cold, 
 and find much difficulty in getting rid of it, living, 
 as we do, in a constant current of air. 
 
 Having two clergymen on board, we have regu- 
 lar service, morning and evening on Sunday, and 
 morning prayers daily. 
 
 There is also a harmonium, and so many people 
 have good voices, that the music might really be 
 very tolerable, could a leader be decided on, and 
 implicitly obeyed. Such a happy state of affairs, 
 however, is not easily found among amateurs any 
 -where, and certainly not in a P. and O. Steamer, 
 where each little clique thinks its own musical 
 member the most talented. A clever Mrs K. 
 has certainly shewn the most decided capacity for 
 the office, but she is voted bumptious and too 
 demonstrative in her attachment to her newly ac- 
 quired husband; these are considered two excellent 
 
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 reasons for not giving her due support, and criti- 
 cising her unmercifully ! Once, and once only, I 
 was persuaded to preside over the church music, 
 and any thing more humbling than the result, can 
 hardly be imagined. Even the kindest and most 
 amiable of our chaplains, clasped his hands in des- 
 pair, when hardly one of the congregation joined 
 in " All people that on earth do dwell," and up- 
 braided me afterwards, though more in sorrow 
 than in anger. " Oh, Miss F. ! Miss F. ! I will 
 never trust you again, why did you not sing the 
 prayer-book version ? " — {Tate & Brady.) 
 
 What could poor Miss F. say in blushing con- 
 fusion at her terrible failure, but, that in her own 
 northern land, hardly a cottager would have been 
 found, who could not repeat the words of the Old 
 Hundred by heart, and sing them with might and 
 main, even if Heaven had denied him much 
 melody in his voice. 
 
 The excuse was politely received, but I felt, 
 nevertheless, my reputation as " Precentor " was 
 gone. 
 
 During the last week, an effort has been made to 
 while away the time by various amusements. 
 
 One evening, there were readings from Pick- 
 wick and Byron. On another occasion, these were 
 diversified by music on the principle of a penny 
 
Letters from China. 13 
 
 reading, and a third evening, there were theatricals. 
 The young men dressed as ladies were good, but 
 the great success of all was Mr N. who, in the 
 character of an old lady, has made himself ever 
 memorable. 
 
 22 nd. Rather an uncomfortable rolling going 
 on this morning, most of the ladies ill. Last night 
 it was charming, and I quite enjoyed the little 
 breeze when walking up and down with Mr S. 
 It is not, however, favourable to writing, and the 
 Punkah boys are working so energetically, that my 
 paper is being blown about in a most aggravating 
 manner. I think, on the whole. Punkahs are a 
 bore, they make a draft, give one cold, and spoil 
 one's temper by carrying off, paper, work, and all 
 other light property. 
 
 The prospect of reaching Ceylon this afternoon 
 is most cheering. We shall spend all to-morrow 
 on shore and intend to enjoy ourselves thoroughly. 
 
 LETTER V. 
 
 p. AND O. Steamer, ■z'&th March. 
 When v/e arrived at Galle, we found the hotels 
 full, owing to all the Mails, homeward and outward 
 
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 bound, having come in at the same time. We had 
 therefore much difficulty in procuring accommoda- 
 tion. After driving about for some time, Mr and 
 Mrs E. at last secured one rather miserable room, 
 and a philanthropic old lady took compassion 
 on me, and requested me to occupy a sofa in hers. 
 But unwary travellers in the East, beware of syren- 
 voiced old ladies, who blandly assure you that 
 there are no mosquitoes when they discover you 
 looking rather ruefully at your curtainless couch. 
 Those malignant insects had doubtless listened to 
 our conversation, and marked me down as a new 
 comer on whom they might feast at leisure, for 
 oh ! what a sad spectacle my face presented the 
 following morning, and for several days thereafter. 
 Beauty and comfort are both now restored, but 
 never shall I believe an old lady again ! 
 
 We were delighted with Ceylon, its beautiful 
 vegetation, and quantities of fruit and flowers 
 being most refreshing to the eyes kfter a fortnight 
 at sea. We had a pleasant drive through woods 
 ■consisting principally pf cocoa-nut trees, and on our 
 return, amused ourselves bargaining with the hosts 
 of good-looking Cingalese who besieged the Hotel 
 offering tortoise shell, and all kinds of curiosities 
 for sale at prices three times their value, and let- 
 ting you have them ultimately, for a mere trifle. 
 
Letters from China. 15 
 
 Preciotis stones also are offered to tempt the novice, 
 most of which are said to be imported from 
 Birmingham, though on rare occasions, a really 
 good stone may be picked up cheap. Had I been 
 on my way home, I should have taken G. the model 
 of a Katamarang. They are such curious looking 
 boats, built very narrow, and with a singular con- 
 trivance at one side to prevent their upsetting 
 in the surf 
 
 March 2)Oth. Yesterday we spent about six 
 hours at Penang, and enjoyed a charming drive 
 through a perfect jungle of exotics. 
 
 It is a very pretty island, the hills wooded to 
 the top with cocoa-nut trees, pines, &c. One of 
 the handsomest trees we saw was the senna, a 
 name which used to be disagreeably familiar to 
 one's youthful ears. 
 
 The ponies of Penang are the most wonderful 
 little animals I ever saw ; they are not, I should 
 think, above twelve hands high, and yet you see 
 them drawing carriages containing four, or even 
 five people, and going along at a great pace with- 
 out much apparent effort. The carriages are no 
 doubt built very lightly, and are like very small 
 char-a-bancs with a light pole at the four corners 
 supporting an awning to protect their occupants 
 from the sun. 
 
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 March Z'^st. — We reached Singapore this 
 morning. The views coming through the straits 
 were most lovely. Of course we went on shore 
 at once, have had our usual drive, enjoyed the 
 shower which daily refreshes Singapore and its 
 inhabitants, and expect to sail again to-morrow 
 morning. 
 
 LETTERVI. 
 
 p. AND O. Steamer, 6th, Apt il. 
 
 The wind was against us for some days after 
 leaving Singapore, and the sea rather rough, which 
 made our progress very slow. It seemed very 
 dull too for some days after parting with my kind 
 friends Mr and Mrs E., especially as, the other 
 ladies being ill, I was the only one able to appear 
 at meals. 
 
 Being sole representative of my sex became 
 really too appalling, so I fairly mutinied, and per- 
 suaded the authorities that I was much too ill to 
 dine down stairs, and must have dinner on deck 
 with the other ladies. Unluckily, the wind 
 blowing our food in every direction but the 
 right one, caused so much laughter, the hilarious 
 sounds penetrated below stairs and cast grave 
 
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 doubts on the minds of said authorities as to the 
 invalidism of some of the party. 
 
 We therefore had reason to be grateful to the 
 winds and the waves when they kindly abated 
 next day and allowed us all to appear down stairs. 
 
 It is said that we shall be in Hong-Kong to- 
 morrow, which I hope we may, and in time for 
 the English mails. 
 
 LETTER VII. 
 
 POK-FOO-LUM, I2th April. 
 
 Since the conclusion of my last letter the first 
 phase of my life has also been concluded, and 
 phase the second commenced. 
 
 I must return, however to our arrival at Hong- 
 Kong which took place on Friday morning about 
 elfeven o'clock. 
 
 Imagine a large waggon of coals being tilted up, 
 and the simile, though a homely one, will bring to 
 your " mind's ear" as nearly as I can describe it, 
 the noise caused by the going down of the anchor. 
 Imagine still farther what a joyful sound this was 
 to me on the bright, sunny morning that saw me 
 at my destination, safe and well, after so long a 
 voyage.. 
 
1 8 Letters from China. 
 
 From the moment we stopped all was bustle 
 and confusion : every one too busy looking after 
 their own affairs to mind any longer those of 
 their neighbour. 
 
 ~ Almost immediately Mr WJ (to whose care I 
 was consigned) and H. made their appearance. 
 
 A few hurried partings, an equally hurried 
 meeting, and I found myself in Mr W.'s boat on 
 our way to his beautiful abode, which is some 
 little distance from the town. 
 
 From the landing-place to the house I was 
 carried, on account of the heat, in a chair — a con- 
 veyance which, I suppose, is mdch the same as an 
 Indian Palanquin. 
 
 Mr W. received me most cordially, and on go- 
 ing to my room, my eyes were greeted by seeing 
 on the table a long letter from Mrs B., and a par- 
 cel containing a lovely present sent to me from 
 Japan. 
 
 In the afternoon H. went again on board the 
 steamer to look after my goods and chattels, and 
 very soon I had the pleasure of seeing the two large 
 boxes called respectively " Hong-Kong" and 
 " Foo-chow" with their attendant and smaller satel- 
 lites ranged safely round the walls of my charm- 
 ingly spacious apartment. 
 
 Rather to my surprise, I found that Canon B. 
 
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 and H. had decided that Palm Sunday was the 
 only suitable time for us to be married iii this, 
 the season of Lent, and had begged Mr W. to de- 
 precate all opposition on my part to the arrange- 
 ment. Though certainly a novel idea to my Pres- 
 byterian mind, I came to the conclusion that it 
 was one highly deserving of a gracious approval, 
 and thus, I fear many kind friends have been com- 
 pletely frustrated in their attempts to drink our 
 health on the right day, and still more at the right 
 hour, for, at 8 a.m. on Sunday, the first day of this 
 
 present week Miss F. became Mrs , and " H. 
 
 and I " were merged in we. 
 
 I must now introduce to you a very important 
 personage of whom you will doubtless see frequent 
 mention in my. letters, and who accompanied us on 
 our drive to this pretty Bungalow — viz., " Scuttle" 
 H.'s black terrier and for many years his constant 
 companion. She occupied the front seat of the carri- 
 age, and from the sagacious expression of her face, 
 and the many sidelong glances cast at me, I cannot 
 doubt she was meditating deeply on the vicissi- 
 tudes to which dogs are heir, and wondering what 
 terms she and her future mistress were to be on. 
 
 H.'s servant, called by the generic name of 
 " Boy," had preceded us here with a procession of 
 coolies carrying our boxes and all things necessary 
 
20 Letters from China. 
 
 for a week's residence, so we found breakfast pre- 
 pared and the house quite ready for our reception. 
 Said " Boy " is by no means a juvenile, the term 
 being applied in the East to either a butler or per- 
 sonal attendant quite irrespective of age, or of the 
 confusion that must sometimes arise from every 
 one's servant being called the same name. 
 
 They are evidently a most intelligent race, but 
 how I am ever to understand what they say, or* 
 make myself understood by them, seems at present 
 a difficulty. I am sorry to say, I have already more 
 than once been reproved for laughing visibly at the 
 extraordinary gibberish called " pidgin English " 
 which H. makes use of in giving orders to our 
 domestic. The individual's dress , is really very 
 neat and clean-looking — A loose white jacket, wide 
 sleeves with blue turned back cuffs^blue kind of 
 knickerbockers with white leggings drawn over 
 them to the knee, and very thick though light 
 soled shoes. This, or entirely white, is the usual 
 dress of a Chinese servant in summer, who also 
 must devote a good deal of time and attention to 
 his head which is always nicely shaved, and his 
 cue beautifully plaited. I believe in full dress and 
 in winter, they wear a garment down to their feet 
 much resembling that which Noah is represented 
 to have worn in the ark ! I must now go back in 
 
Letters from China. 21, 
 
 my narrative and tell you how perfectly charmed 
 I was with the beauty of Hong-Kong. 
 
 My impression had always been that fever and 
 general unhealthiness was its principal character- 
 istic, and such unfortunately was, to a certain ex- 
 tent, the case, at one time ; but now the climate is 
 greatly improved, owing, it is said, partly to the 
 advice of Mr Fortune, the eminent botanist, who 
 gave it as his opinion that if numerous trees 
 were planted, they would draw off the noxious 
 gases, from the soil, which had for years proved 
 so disastrous in their effects on the English 
 regiments. 
 
 The town, of course, is also thereby greatly 
 beautified, as well as by the handsome public and 
 private buildings, — all of white stone, and many of 
 which, I suppose, from their appearance, cannot 
 have existed very long. 
 
 Then the Harbour crowded with gaily painted 
 junks, and ships of every flag and nationality, is 
 like an immense inland lake, so completely is it to 
 all appearance land-locked and surrounded by hills~ 
 rising in many places from the water's edge. The 
 highest is Victoria Peak. You can hardly ima- 
 gine a more beautiful or cheerful scene than that 
 on which I looked down from my verandah at 
 Mr W.'s house, and will therefore not be surprised 
 
2 2 Letters from China. 
 
 at my taking a very couleur-de-rose view of a few- 
 years' residence in China. 
 
 Our abode here has a pretty look-out over the 
 sea. We are distant about four miles from Hong-. 
 Kong, and there are several other Bungalows 
 scattered about the neighbourhood, belonging to 
 the different mercantile houses in the town, whose 
 inhabitants find it a pleasant change in the hot 
 season to come here and enjoy the' sea breezes. 
 
 Hong-Kong, i^tk April. — Mrs W. sent her 
 carriage for us on Saturday, driven as before, by 
 a rather imposing-looking Indian with a huge 
 turban. 
 
 We found, to our regret, on returning to this 
 hospitable mansion, that our host was still too 
 unwell to appear, and though his kind little wife 
 is a host in herself, I fear our presence must be 
 rather inconvenient to her, when so anxious about 
 her husband. Yesterday (Easter Sunday) we 
 went to service in the Cathedral. 
 
 In the afternoon we walked round the Happy 
 Valley, which is evidently intended by nature for 
 the purpose to which it is applied, viz., that of a 
 race-course, the amphitheatre of hills forming for 
 it a natural grand stand. 
 
 Nestling under these hills, we saw the well laid- 
 out and beautifully kept cemeteries belonging to 
 
Letters from, China. 23 
 
 the numerous religious sects to be found in this 
 cosmopolitan colony. 
 
 All the dogs of the establishment accompanied 
 us in our walk — a goodly array, for in the East 
 most of the members of the great mercantile 
 houses live together, so they, with their respective 
 pets form a large household. 
 
 April iStA. — To-day we have been driving 
 about visiting the " curio " shops and others of a 
 more practical nature, as I hear there are none, 
 near my future home. In the afternoon Canon 
 B. and others called. 
 
 We must alas ! give up the pleasure of visiting 
 Canton at present, as Mr R. kindly invited us to 
 do ; but the inexorable steamer sails to-morrow, 
 andjH. is obliged to return to Foo Chow before 
 the beginning of another week. 
 
 LETTER VIII. 
 
 Imperial Arsenal, Foo Chow, 
 April zi, 1 87-. , 
 
 " The letters muSt be posted in half-an-hour,"' 
 
 is the message just received, so I have merely 
 
 time for a few lines to tell you of our safe arrival 
 
 yesterday, after a very pleasant three-days' voyage 
 
 from Hong-Kong. 
 
24 Letters from China. 
 
 We sailed at three o'clock on Tuesday, and 
 reached Swatow about noon the following day — 
 a most utterly uninteresting-looking place, and 
 the heat so great, there was no inducement to 
 land. After spending some hours there, we 
 sailed again, and found ourselves early next day 
 at Amoy, which is extremely pretty. We 
 lunched with some pleasant naval friends of H.'s, 
 and in the afternoon took a walk, which we sub- 
 sequently voted to have been much longer than 
 was quite agreeable under such a blazing sun. 
 
 The sail up the river to this place is quite 
 lovely, one could hardly believe oneself in China, 
 being reminded alternately of Switzerland, Scot- 
 land, and the Rhine — of the latter, because in 
 many places the hills are, in like manner, terraced 
 and cultivated to the very top. 
 
 The Arsenal is not on the sea as I had thought 
 it was, but above twenty miles lip the river " Min," 
 and the town is twelve miles higher up. Large 
 vessels cannot go as far as Foo Chow; so lay at 
 the Pagoda Anchorage, so-called from a Pagoda 
 which is built on a small island, off which we 
 anchored yegterday, and where we were met by 
 a boat from the Arsenal. 
 
 As we passed the dock we saw the welcoming 
 flag was hoisted, which I am told Captain S. 
 
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 reserves specially for Nouveaux Marids, and at the 
 ' landing-place we found chairs kindly provided for 
 us by Mon. G., our own not having yet arrived. 
 
 We were borne along at a swinging pace, and 
 amidst much chattering and hilarity among the 
 coolies, to our own door, where, no sooner had we 
 alighted, than we were received by a perfect 
 volley of crackers from the assembled multitude, 
 which was followed by many others for nearly an 
 hour. 
 
 Guns don't seem to be used by the celestials 
 on festive occasions, but they certainly have 
 brought their crackers to great perfection, as 
 nothing could have been more satisfactorily deaf- 
 ening, than the noise they made. 
 
 At the entrance there was an archway in ever- 
 greens, surmounted by the usual, but ever-pleasant 
 word — ^" Welcome ; " and the staircase and pas- 
 sage up to our rooms was beautifully decorated 
 with evergreens, flags, and flowers. 
 
 Such a cheerful reception to this far-distant 
 home was most enlivening as well as gratifying, 
 shewing, as it does, the kindly feeling that exists 
 towards H. not only among his European neigh- 
 bours, but also in his Chinese pupils, who materi- 
 ally aided and abetted in these unlooked-for 
 rejoicings. I am told that had I been a Chinese 
 
26 Letters from China. 
 
 bride, I should have had a gaily-decorated scarlet 
 chair, and had gongs (not trumpets !) sounded, 
 before me ! 
 
 LETTER IX. 
 
 Imperial Arsenal, Foo-Chow, i<)th April. 
 One annoyance I have discovered in this new 
 home is, that there is no regular mail in com- 
 munication with the P. and O. I shall therefore 
 send a letter by every opportunity to Hong- 
 Kong ; so, if some of them appear to be longer 
 en route than others, the above is the explanation 
 of their being so. There is soon, however, to be 
 a French mail twice-a-month from Hong-Kong 
 and the same from England, which, with the 
 mails now existing, will enable us to have weekly 
 communication. 
 
 You can believe how delighted I was, when a 
 neighbour came in yesterday to call my attention 
 to the red flag which floated from the top of the 
 Dock, denoting thereby that the steamer bearing 
 my first letters from home was in sight, and that 
 I should have them in a few hours. Nor was I 
 disappointed. Ere long they appeared ; and how 
 eagerly their contents were devoured, I leave you 
 to imagine. 
 
Letters from China. 27 
 
 You wish to hear about so many things, I 
 hardly know where to begin, but will do so by 
 describing the situation and general appearance 
 of our house. The latter is easily done, it being 
 a very practical-looking square mansion, which 
 seems to be the usual style of architecture in this 
 part of the world. It stands within a gateway 
 guarded on each side by mythological monsters, 
 and in the centre of a small garden surrounded 
 by magnificently tall bamboos. 
 
 The part allotted to us by the Arsenal autho- 
 rities consists of a good-sized dining-room down- 
 stairs, and upstairs the drawing-room, which, with 
 its verandah, is a pretty cheerful-looking room. 
 These, and a large bed-room and dressing-room, 
 form our " Chateau en Chine : " by which you 
 will see that our domain is not a very extensive 
 one, nor does it allow us much scope for hospi- 
 tality. 
 
 It, as well as several other houses, and all the 
 immense workshops belonging to the Arsenal, is 
 built on a flat piece of ground, reclaimed from a 
 marshy paddy-field. 
 
 Higher up, on the side of the hill which rises 
 immediately behind us, are the houses of the 
 French Directors, from which there is a charming 
 view of the river and harbour. Higher still, is a 
 
28 Letters from China. 
 
 Buddhist temple, or called more commonly " Joss 
 House," erected as a refuge for the spirits of the 
 dead, which were supposed to have been offended 
 by their bodies being removed when the ground 
 was being prepared for the Arsenal. 
 
 A' propos of this, a curious story has just been 
 told me. 
 
 It happened at that time, that one of the 
 Chinese soldiers fell into an extraordinary kind of 
 state, foaming at the mouth, howling, drinking 
 buckets of water, and going on with all kinds of 
 absurdities. Ultimately he demanded to be 
 taken to the Yamlan, which he insisted on enter- 
 ing by the great gateway, not being contented to 
 do so by the ordinary small one. When there, 
 he informed the Imperial Commissioner that he 
 had had a dream, in which it was revealed to him 
 that the spirits of those whose bodies had been 
 thus disturbed were most indignant, and would 
 continue fluttering over the Arsenal until there 
 had been a feast lasting four days. Accordingly 
 the Yamtan was used as a " Joss House" for the 
 occasion, no temple having as yet been built ; and 
 for four days " chow-chow " and all kinds of 
 offerings were collected together, after which, it 
 was supposed, the wrath of the angry spirits was 
 appeased, and that they would be satisfied to 
 
Letters from China. 29 
 
 retire quietly to the temple which was in course 
 of building. 
 
 N.B. — By " chow chow " is meant in " Pidgin 
 English," food of all kinds, and it takes a very 
 important part in the religious ceremonies of the 
 Chinese, who by no means consider that either 
 their deities or deceased relatives are independent 
 of material support. 
 
 YamHn is the residence and offices of the head 
 government official of the district. 
 
 Having given you these explanations, I must 
 go on to tell you of our visit to the temple 
 alluded to, and of the polite reception we met 
 with from the priests, who requested us to sit 
 down and offered us tea,^ — made of course a la 
 Chinois, by pouring boiling water on the leaves, 
 covering it up for a few minutes, and then drink- 
 ing it without milk or sugar. I do not think I shall 
 ever become a convert to this mode of using the 
 national beverage. 
 
 The priests are most amiable-looking men, and 
 evidently wished to make themselves agreeable, 
 though our only mode of communication was by 
 energetic " chin-chinning," in which, much to their 
 amusement, the intelligent " Scuttle " did not fail 
 to join by sitting up in front of them and persever- 
 ingly wagging her forepaws. The process of " chin- 
 
30 Letters from China. 
 
 chinning" is accomplished by putting your two 
 hands together and moving them up and down as if 
 shaking hand with yourself. It answers the same 
 purpose among the Chinese as our shaking hands, 
 saying "thank you," and apparently of many 
 other kindly expressions and felicitations. 
 
 As yet all Chinamen seem to me to be exactly 
 the same, but I suppose by and bye, I shall be 
 able to distinguish a difference in their features. 
 They are a most noisy race, so that when the 
 work-people pass our house, which they do in 
 hundreds, several times daily, I rush to the 
 window to see what terrible catastrophe has 
 happened. 
 
 I begin to understand, however, that all these 
 tumultuous sounds mean nothing to excite alarm. 
 Though they quarrel and use any amount of 
 strong language, the combat is entirely oral and 
 never comes to blows, but ends, generally speaking, 
 in the antagonists running off in different directions, 
 turning round and shrieking ^tp each other as they 
 go, their farewell words of abuse. 
 
 Everything is done here by manual labour — no 
 carts or horses to be seen, and as there are great 
 works going on, the earth, stones — everything is 
 carried in buckets hung by ropes from each end 
 of a bamboo which is balanced across the 
 
Letters from China. 31 
 
 shoulders. Seeing multitudes of coolies laden in 
 this way and following each other in strings up 
 and down the steep, narrow pathways, reminds 
 one in the distance of an ant hill, and the manner 
 in which numbers of them are yoked together by 
 connecting bamboos to convey any large or heavy 
 burden, such as a log of wood or block of stone, 
 is most extraordinary, in fact is literally a Chinese 
 puzzle which would astonish our work-people at 
 home. 
 
 The women are certainly not pretty : those 
 one sees working out of doors decidedly coarse- 
 looking, and their costume in this part of China 
 most unbecoming, consisting of a short black 
 blouse confined at the waist by a belt, a small 
 white apron and very, very short, wide trousers 
 sometimes hardly reaching the knee, below which 
 the leg is left entirely bare, and their feet thrust 
 into straw slippers with no heels, which they only 
 can keep on by shuffling along the ground in a 
 most irritating manner. Their redeeming feature 
 is their hair, which, as well as their eyes, is 
 invariably black, and almost as invariably neatly 
 dressed. How the dressing is accomplished in 
 such hard, smooth rolls, and twisted up behind 
 into such a curious form, resembling the handle 
 of a tea-pot, I cannot tell. A long ornamental 
 
32 Letters from China. 
 
 pin is stuck through it, which protrudes a good 
 many inches on each side of the hair ; and a 
 bright flower, either real or artificial, worn at one 
 side, gives them, in spite of their plain looks, 
 rather a picturesque appearance. Their heads 
 seem more impervious to heat and cold than 
 those of the men, as they seldom wear any cover- 
 ing except that bestowed on them by nature, and 
 of which, by the bye, the men are defrauded ; so 
 that the working classes have to supply the defi- 
 ciency by wearing the large, slightly conical hat 
 which you see in any pictures of Chinamen, and 
 which answers equally well the purpose of sun- 
 shade or umbrella. 
 
 The dress of the better class of women is, I 
 think, rather pretty and certainly most sensible ; 
 for, as it does not fit to the figure, very little may 
 be worn in summer, and a great deal in winter, 
 without inconvenience. In their case, both the 
 under garments and a petticoat descend to the 
 ankle ; only the upper one of all is short, and the 
 colour and material of the whole costume is varied 
 according to taste and the season of the year. 
 Their feet also are clad like ours in stockings, 
 and they wear the usual very thick but light soled 
 shoes. I speak of course, of those who allow their 
 feet to remain in the natural form. 
 
Letters from China. 33 
 
 The small-footed women look as if their heels 
 were bound tightly up so as to form part of the 
 leg, and their toes only were left for use. The 
 result is, they go at an uncomfortable pace, half 
 walk, half run, and a descent on their nose would 
 seem inevitable, but for the stick with which they 
 help themselves along. 
 
 A family of Christian Chinese who live near 
 us have called on me ; and I was astonished to 
 hear the perfect English they spoke, which was 
 soon explained by my finding that Mr L. had 
 been educated in America, and his daughters in 
 England, and in fact that they hardly considered 
 themselves Chinese, though they still wear the 
 national dress, and conform to a certain extent to 
 the national customs. The two daughters have 
 very sweet voices, and have promised to help us 
 in our endeavours to improve the music in our 
 little church, which has hitherto been carried on 
 by the combined talents of H. and his gunnery- 
 instructor, who has a fine bass v&ice. 
 
 The seamen's chapel was 'built, as its name 
 denotes, specially for the benefit of sailors, of 
 whom there are a great many here in summer, 
 when the harbour is crowded with a perfect fleet 
 of magnificent clippers, waiting to carry home 
 their freight of tea. The service is performed by 
 
34 Letters from China. 
 
 the consular chaplain, who comes from Foo-Chow 
 every Sunday afternoon for the purpose. A 
 weary voyage it must often be, depending so 
 much as- it does on the wind and the tide ; f6r 
 there being no roads, the transit between this 
 and the town must always ,be performed by water. 
 Should thfe elements therefore be contrary, it 
 sometimes takes four or five hours to accomplish 
 it in a house-boat, and often has to be abandoned 
 altogether. Under favourable circumstances the 
 usual time is about two hours. When the larger 
 boats cannot get on, the only yay to obviate the 
 difficulty is to have recourse to a "sanpan," 
 which, being small and light, can be sent along at 
 a good pace by four strong men in spite of any 
 ordinary wind or tide. 
 
 The Sanpans on this river are about sixteen 
 feet long, half covered in, and generally inhabited 
 by the same family from generation to generation. 
 H. says he has seen three generations, children, 
 pdrents, and grandparents all living together in the 
 same boat. How they are stowed away is marvel- 
 lous ! There is, I am told, a population amounting 
 to thousands who have never lived otherwise than 
 in these boats, which they keep beautifully clean, 
 indeed they seem to be much the cleanest portion 
 of the. community. 
 
Letters from China. 35 
 
 My last remark was probably called forth by 
 having passed through the native village a few 
 days ago, which I found extremely trying to my 
 olfactory nerves, and its dirtiness I shall not at- 
 tempt to describe. 
 
 On the same occasion we passed a box placed 
 on the top of a pole, and containing exposed to view, 
 as a terror to evil-doers, the head of a thief. The 
 Chinese are very summary in their treatment of 
 such criminals, as they consider death is the only 
 certain cure for thievish propensities. 
 
 Leaving you to meditate on how such a system 
 would suit the ideas of our English humanitarians 
 who wish to abolish capital punishment for even 
 more heinous crimes, I must say adieu, as the 
 mail closes this afternoon. 
 
 LETTER X. 
 
 8/A May 
 
 I begin already to feel quite domesticated, 
 though all around me seemed at first, so new and 
 strange. 
 
 H. was obliged to resume his duties at once 
 on our arrival. However, the school-yard is in a 
 most convenient situation, being just behind the 
 
36 Letters from China. 
 
 house. I have, therefore, the full benefit of the 
 bugling which goes on at all hours of the day, and 
 also ample opportunity for observing the course of 
 instruction bestowed on the young Chinamen both 
 as to drill, and English games which seem to be 
 highly appreciated. They have few games of 
 their own. The only one I "have observed them 
 playing is with a kind of shuttlecock which they 
 toss from one to the other, hitting it in a marvel- 
 lous way with their feet, so that great activity 
 and suppleness are necessary for the performance. 
 
 At 5 A.M. the first bugle sounds. This informs 
 the pupils that they must get up, and the Precep- 
 tor that he may sleep one half hour longer, which 
 "little half hour" soon glides by, and then a 
 second inexorable bugle tells the latter he has 
 just time to precipitate himself into the nationally 
 loose garments he wears in school at this early 
 hour. At 6.30 a still more cruel bugle warns me 
 I also must get up to have breakfast ready for the 
 Domestic Mogul, who presently comes in to pre- 
 pare for the same, and assume more Christian 
 attire. 
 
 You naturally imagine from the hours I 
 mention that it is hot weather, and so do not 
 give me due amount of credit for such activity, 
 but I can assure you it is nothing of the kind, 
 
Letters from China. 37 
 
 and I feel sometimes much inclined to have a fire. 
 We had one or two hot days, which made H. in 
 a rash moment begin his summer hours ; but as 
 a general 'rule, it is rather chilly — about the 
 temperature of cool summer weather in England. 
 I insist on retiring to rest betimes, as I found it 
 did not suit me to conform to Chinese hours in 
 the morning, and English ones at night, especially 
 as for some time I was perpetually awakened by 
 the various noises which go on during the watches 
 of the night. 
 
 First come one set of watchmen rattling bam- 
 boos vigorously, and thereby giving due notice to 
 any one who may be out on a thieving raid, that 
 they had better hide themselves. Then there 
 follows at stated periods, a greater magnate of the 
 same species who goes his rounds to see that his 
 minor brethren are awake, they being very apt 
 to rattle their bamboos in their sleep, and he 
 makes a still more excruciating noise by banging 
 a gong as loudly as he can. I have now accom- 
 plished sleeping through both the last named 
 instruments, so do not despair of, in time, ignoring 
 the bugles also ! 
 
 At the top of the hill behind the house are the 
 barracks where the Chinese soldiers with their 
 guns, gongs, and trombones, begin at an early 
 
38 Letters from China. 
 
 hour in the morning to add their quota to the 
 general noise. 
 
 Within a few hundred yards there is also a 
 battery fitted up to represent the deck of a man- 
 of-war, where the cadets are twice-a-week in- 
 structed in gunnery. On these mornings sleep is 
 even more impossible than usual, one's dreams 
 being rudely disturbed by the shaking of window 
 frames, &c., 
 
 Finally, — the worst of all, is the practising of 
 buglers, and when, contrary to orders, several of 
 them do so at the same time, the distraction to 
 unfortunate ears reaches its climax. 
 
 From the foregoing description you will under- 
 stand that our life here is not a quiet one in every 
 sense of the word. As to society it is certainly 
 likely to be so, the community being a very small 
 one. I have only, as yet, had one visitor of my 
 own sex, but a good many of the other, principally 
 Frenchmen, for, as the arsenal is under French 
 direction, most of the officials belong to that 
 nation. ' 
 
 Two evenings ago we dined at the house of our 
 agreeable Director, to meet some old friends of 
 H.'s, who, however, live at the town of Foo-Chow, 
 so I fear we shall not be able to see much of 
 them. 
 
Letters from China. 39 
 
 Most of our French neighbours sing — one of 
 them more especially is the happy possessor of a 
 most charming tenor voice, so we had a great 
 deal of music, and I foresee that with such a 
 musical little coterie, we may look forward to hav- 
 ing many such pleasant evenings. 
 
 This is a very curious kind of place with no 
 roads of any description, except rough pathways 
 over the hills, so that few people ever think of 
 walking, even men being carried in chairs, always 
 excepting H. who scorns the conveyance as much 
 as I do at present. Whether my views on the 
 subject may change on the arrival of the hot 
 season, we shall see by and by. 
 
 I have greatly enjoyed the few scrambling 
 walks we have had, but I fear We shall not 
 accomplish many more, as H. does not appreciate 
 them much after a hard day's work, and when the 
 heat really comes on in earnest, I do not suppose I 
 shall do so either. 
 
 I am therefore making up my mind to ex- 
 periencing somewhat the sensations of a bird in a 
 cage, and being content to remain within the pre- 
 cincts of our small garden for the next four 
 months. 
 
 The new European woman seems still to excite 
 great curiosity in the Coolie mind, and the rails of 
 
40 Letters from China. 
 
 the garden are generally lined by a row of inquisi- 
 tive faces trying to catch a glimpse of its in- 
 mate?. 
 
 A beautiful quick-growing Clematis, which it is 
 our daily amusement to train, will soon however, 
 close the view to them and to me, and then I 
 shall be at liberty to devote my overplus energy 
 to a little practical gardening, which will make up 
 in some measure for the loss of my usual riding 
 and walking exercise, 
 
 Our garden cannot at , present boast of much 
 variety in its productions, it being almost entirely 
 occupied by mignonette and marigolds, the latter 
 by no means an object pf my admiration, but I 
 am evidently doomed to be haunted by them 
 wherever I go ! 
 
 The sole, implement of cultivation used by the 
 gardener, is a large hoe, which, however, in the 
 hands of a Chinaman, seems to be a wonderfully 
 effective one ; but I do not think we shall be able 
 to do much ourselves until the arrival of our 
 English tools. 
 
 LETTERXI. 
 
 May ixst, 187-. 
 
 We have had such a marvellously gay week, 
 that it has not been possible to prepare letters for 
 
Letters from China. 41 
 
 the mail till to-day, which will cause some diffi- 
 culty in having them ready in time. 
 
 Those of my friends who regarded my depart- 
 ure for Foo-chow as one to a different world, 
 will be surprised to hear that gaiety can exist in 
 what to them, seemed such an unknown region of 
 the earth. Yet so it is ! and a few evenings ago, 
 we found it quite possible to danc.e in the 
 " unknown region " till somewhere about three in 
 the morning. 
 
 The ball did not take place here, but at the 
 town, which is twelve miles farther up the river, 
 and where we went to stay with H.'s friends, the 
 Consul and his wife. 
 
 There being a regatta here last Wednesday, 
 and consequently a holiday at the Arsenal, we 
 took advantage of it, that we might have two 
 whole days for our visit, which we preferred to 
 being present at the boat races. The Baron de 
 M. kindly sent his house-boat for us, which is a 
 species of vessel I have mentioned once or twice 
 without describing, so I had better now enlighten 
 your mind on the subject, it being an all-import- 
 ant conveyance in this roadless land. 
 
 House-boats are sailing vessels varying in size, 
 but always sufficiently large to contain bed-room, 
 sitting-room, and small kitchen, and cooking 
 
42 Letters from China. 
 
 apparatus, so that on a river expedition they 
 literally combine house and boat in one, and as 
 the sides are entirely occupied by windows, the 
 scenery can be enjoyed without any exposure to 
 the sun. Some of the larger ones are fitted up 
 most comfortably with drawers, cupboards, pantry, 
 and many other little inventions for convenience 
 during a prolonged residence on board. At their 
 mast-head they carry the designating flag of the 
 house of business, or owner to whom they belong, 
 which enables them in the distance to be easily 
 recognized. 
 
 On approaching the town the river presented 
 a very gay scene, with its multitude of junks and 
 boats, the former all provided with eyes painted 
 on their bow that they may, according to the 
 Chinese idea, see where to go ! How such clumsy, 
 ponderous-looking vessels can ever come safely 
 through the perils of the deep, seems very marvel- 
 ous to my ignorant female mind. 
 
 The native city is on the right side of the river, 
 while on the left, are many of the foreign Hongs 
 and residences, the two banks being connected 
 by a very substantial stone bridge. 
 
 Wind and tide having favoured us we accom- 
 plished our voyage in good time for Tiffin, and 
 found chairs had been sent to wait our arrival and 
 
Letters from China. 43 
 
 convey us to the Consulate, which is about a mile 
 from the landing-place. 
 
 The transit from the river to our destination 
 confirmed my impression of China being a huge 
 grave-yard, for most of the way we passed through 
 myriads of tombs, and though the chair coolies 
 are very clever in threading their way along the 
 narrow pathways, an occasional bump on the 
 obstructive grave-stones is almost inevitable. I 
 am 'told the Chinese believe that their departed 
 friends are better satisfied if they are buried 
 in a dry situation and where there is a fine 
 view. I think it also probable that being a thrifty 
 nation, they find the high and dry situations are 
 less desirable for cultivation, and therefore bestow 
 them all the more willingly on the dead. 
 
 We met with a most kind welcome to their 
 charming house from our ho^t and hostess. 
 
 The Consulate, like most of the other houses 
 belonging to the European settlement, stands high, 
 and from the lawn behind there is an extensive 
 view of the native city and of the river and boats 
 lying below. From the rising ground in front we 
 had a view which gave me some idea of the beauty 
 of the scenery on the river Min, and of its end- 
 less hills and valleys, the latter occupied by paddy 
 fields looking green and beautiful in the distance, 
 
44 . Letters from China. 
 
 which in their case " lends great enchantment," as 
 they are by no means so charming on a nearer 
 approach, being simply marshes intersected by 
 such very narrow pathways, that a little practice 
 on the tight-rope would be valuable for enabling 
 one to walk in comfort, without a foot occasionally 
 slipping into the mud. 
 
 ' We spent the afternoon in an exciting game of 
 croquet. In the evening some friends came to 
 dinner and we had a little dancing to prepare us 
 for the more serious exertions of the following 
 night. 
 
 The day of the ball there were numerous 
 visitors, for where ladies are at such a premium, 
 enthusiastic dancers find it necessary to make 
 arrangements for securing partners before the 
 evening arrives. There is also in a small com- 
 munity a very natural curiosity to see the new 
 arrivals, of whom there have been several lately 
 besides myself. 
 
 You will be amused when you hear that there 
 were only twelve ladies at the ball, and that this 
 was the greatest number that has ever yet been 
 attained to at Foo-Chow. The proportion of men 
 being about four to one, the way we twelve de- 
 voted women exerted ourselves, was truly 
 astonishing! Poor H. having so long lived the 
 
Letters from China. 45 
 
 life of a recluse, quite looked on himself as a 
 victim in being obliged to go, but where there 
 are" so few ladies, any one possessing a wife has 
 to regard it as a necessary drawback to the situa- 
 tion, that he should sacrifice himself for the good 
 of the public on such festive occasions. 
 
 We enjoyed our visit very much and were 
 most kindly pressed to stay longer, the Baron de 
 M. offering as an inducement to us to do so, that 
 he would take us a beautiful expedition up the 
 river, and assuring me that my husband had 
 " beaucoup trap de conscience " in thinking it neces- 
 sary to return so soon to his duties. 
 
 The weather begins to get warm, though 
 fortunately the night of the ball was charmingly 
 cool, and the room thoroughly, ventilated by its 
 large open verandah. 
 
 LETTER XII. 
 
 I AM at present in a widowed state, as H. went 
 off yesterday morning with all his pupils for a 
 two days' cruise and trial trip, on board a ship 
 which is about the same size as that which is now 
 being built for training purposes. 
 
 When I first arrived, I should have been 
 
46 Letters from China. 
 
 horrified at the idea of being left alone in this al 
 fresco style of abode ; but it is wonderful how 
 rapidly one can conform one's self to circum- 
 stances, so that I really have not felt alarmed, 
 though I took care last night to arm myself with 
 a good large bell with which to rouse the public 
 should any thieves pay me a visit in my lonely 
 condition. I must confess, however, to a very 
 dreary sensation during the long evening, far you 
 know we have no twilight, so that darkness 
 almost immediately follows the setting of the 
 sun ; and as our domestics live in the back yard, 
 the stillness of the house could almost be felt, 
 except for an occasional movement on the part of 
 my semi-detached neighbour, and the buzzing of 
 the mosquitos, — -which word does not quite 
 express the low, menacing sound made by those 
 cannibal insects. 
 
 During the day there are numerous sounds to 
 break on my solitude, both from without and 
 within, as our drawing-room is above the English 
 school where the pupils receive their preparatory 
 education for the ship which is to be established ; 
 and I can hear the voices from below very dis- 
 tinctly, especially when there is any stupidity on 
 the part of the instructed. 
 
 The servants evidently think the best way of 
 
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 consoling me for " Massa's " absence is by bring- 
 ing me all the flowers they can find. One of 
 them brought me such an immense bunch of 
 gardenias this morning, I have been obliged to 
 remove them to a distance, as their perfume was 
 rather overwhelming. It was satisfactory to see 
 that such beautiful flowers could exist, as I had 
 begun to take what proves to be a prematurely 
 desponding view of the flora of this part of 
 China, having seen in the gardens round here 
 only very poor specimens of our commonest 
 English flowers. I have discovered, too, that 
 some large bushes in our own garden are gar- 
 denias, and that they will soon be covered with 
 blossom. The foliage looks so different to that 
 of the small delicate plants we have at home, I 
 had quite failed to recognise it in such a robust 
 form. 
 
 My walks have not yet been entirely given up, 
 though H. cannot often accompany me, his time 
 between school and drill being very fully occupied 
 from 5.30 A.M. till 6 p.m. 
 
 I have, however, plucked up' more courage ia 
 facing the crowds of work people through whom 
 one has to pass before getting to the hill, and 
 which at first seemed very formidable, they 
 looked to me such a race of savages. I believe 
 
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 they are in reality quite harmless, though they 
 make so much chattering about any passer-by, 
 more especially when, to them, a lady on foot is 
 such an unusual sight. Whatever their remarks 
 may be I do not understand them; so, as "ignor- 
 ance is bliss," &c., I am endeavouring to shake 
 off what probably are foolish fears, and have 
 several times lately gone off in search of ferns 
 escorted by a Chinese servant only, who takes 
 the greatest care of me, and puts out his hand in 
 the most gallant manner to assist me up and 
 down the steep ascents. 
 
 The ferns are numerous and lovely. When I 
 want a supply to arrange in flower glasses, all 
 that is necessary is to send to the hill, and in a 
 few minutes handfuls are collected of what we 
 should consider at home very rare kinds. 
 
 A species of banian seems to be the largest 
 tree there is in this neighbourhood, and some I 
 have seen have grown to a great size and are 
 very picturesque. There are also a number of 
 fruit-trees, such as the guava, lunyian, lychee, &c. 
 
 We have had a good deal of rain, which, with 
 the accompanying heat, creates a dampness in 
 the atmosphere most destructive to musical in- 
 struments, and various articles of dress. The 
 latter require the utmost attention and constant 
 
Letters from China. 49 
 
 airing to prevent their being i:uined by mildew. 
 Gloves become spotted if exposed to the air for 
 even a day or two, so that the only way of pre- 
 serving them is by keeping them in tightly corked 
 bottles, and even that inconvenient process is not 
 always successful. I observe that white and the 
 colours most nearly approaching it are those least 
 liable to destruction. Pianos go out of tune and 
 become partially dumb in a way which is most 
 baffling, it is so difficult to know what remedy to 
 apply. I spend many spare moments in running 
 over scales, and flatter myself have thereby in- 
 spired the notes with a sufficient amount of 
 energy to prevent their becoming absolutely 
 speechless ! 
 
 A few evenings ago we had two of our French 
 neighbours at dinner, and sang till nearly 
 midnight. 
 
 On Saturday evening another small excitement 
 arose, caused by our being informed at a late 
 hour that Canon B., who was on a visit at Foo- 
 chow, intended to have morning service at the 
 Anchorage next day. Now, as we and our 
 assistant choristers are accustomed to the evening 
 service only, you will understand how embarrass- 
 ing it was to receive such a sudden announce- 
 ment. However, at an early hour on Sunday 
 
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5° Letters from China. 
 
 morning, H. summoned' his gunnery-instructor to 
 the rescue,' with the aid of whose powerful voice, 
 we always feel independent. The chants and re-, 
 spouses were practised, the harmonium de- 
 spatched to the church, and our part of the 
 service was accomplished better than might have 
 been expected. 
 
 H. has invented a kind of cradle in which the 
 harmonium can perform its weekly journeys in 
 safety, and can be carried quite easily swung in 
 the usual manner on a bamboo, by two coolies. 
 The latter, we rather think, believe it to be our 
 yoss (or Idol ! ) 
 
 May 2,oth.- — It appears in consequence of H.'s 
 absence for two days last week, a steamer went 
 to Hong-Kong without my knowledge, and I 
 have thereby missed the French mail. 
 
 Your news of us is no doubt very recent, but 
 I find we shall have some more commissions, so 
 I wish to let you know of them before the depart- 
 ure of my boxes, as we are told on all sides that 
 it is better and cheaper to get almost everything 
 direct from England, including even household 
 stores. We do not think, however, that for so 
 small a mdnage as ours, it would be worth the 
 trouble of doing the latter. 
 
 We wish very much that our supply of garden 
 
Letters from China. 51 
 
 tools should be accompanied by a book on garden- 
 ing, which would give us some useful hints to 
 assist our efforts in the practical part of it, as I 
 am ashamed to discover, how limited my know- 
 ledge on the subject is. 
 
 You will be amused with the enthusiasm which 
 has seized us ; but for one thing my often taking 
 exercise without the gates of our^ own little 
 domain, is compassed with difficulties, my amuse- 
 ments therefore, during our residence here, must 
 be, to a great extent self-contained. Besides 
 which, we do not intend to indulge in the ex- 
 travagance of a Cantonese gardener, and must 
 instruct our good-natured little coolie so as to 
 secure having more than one species of flower at 
 a time, which seems to be his dominant idea. 
 The Chinese are such a mechanical race that in- 
 struction does not proceed very rapidly, unless 
 you can "make them look see" how a thing is 
 done ; but then, once an jdea is fairly taken in, it 
 is permanently remembered, which is not always 
 the case in minds of quicker intelligence. , 
 
 We went this morning, in spite of the rain, to 
 see the launch of H.'s training ship, which took 
 place in the presence of the Imperial Commis- 
 sioner, and was preceded by some most curious 
 ceremonies. 
 
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 First two pigs and two goats were offered to 
 the goddess of the river, and numerous pieces of 
 sacred paper were burnt on which were written 
 prayers. They then adjourned to another smaller 
 altar on which otHer sacrifices were offered to the 
 Goddess of heaven, burning also more sacred 
 paper ; but the latter Deity is not apparently con- 
 sidered such an important one, at least as regards 
 ships, for they only offered to her a pig's head and 
 that of a goat. When going from one altar to 
 the other, the Imperial Commissioner was sup- 
 posed to imitate as nearly as possible the move- 
 ments of a horse, bending his knees in a curious 
 and most ungraceful manner. What the super- 
 stition is which prescribes this mode of walking 
 I do not know. 
 
 These ceremonies over, the ship glided beauti- 
 fully into the river, amidst a great uproar, shouting, 
 shrieking, and firing of guns. 
 
 The Imperial Commissioner is a very clever 
 man, but has a most cruel expression, and his 
 face does not belie him, if, as is affirmed, he 
 chopped off a secretary's head for merely failing 
 to address a letter to him correctly. 
 
 Should your ideas of a mandarin's dress be 
 formed, like mine, from that of an automaton 
 conjuror which used to be my delight in the days 
 
Letters from China. 53 
 
 of my youth, you would be as disappointed as I 
 was with the magnate we saw to-day, whose attire 
 was" anything but gorgeous. It consisted of the 
 usual long Noah's Ark garment, the colour blue, 
 and the material — I feel sure must be that 
 mysterious fabric called "shirting" which one 
 sees so largely quoted in the newspapers as an 
 important article of merchandise. I never realised 
 before what it could be, but at this moment it 
 flashes into my mind that this must be it. 
 
 On his head, surmounting the garment of 
 shirting, he wore a conical hat with red button, 
 and tassel. There is much meaning in the colour 
 of the button, as in it consists the whole dignity 
 of the wearer, so that as long as he has a button, 
 it matters not what else he wears — the colour of 
 that small appendage announces at a glance to 
 the initiated eye, his rank and position among 
 mandarins. Our friend of to-day holds, I believe, 
 a very high rank in the Empire. 
 
 In the course of the afternoon, a goose, a capon, 
 and two bottles of wine arrived from the Yamun, 
 it being a Chinese custom to send presents on 
 any great occasion such as the launch of a vessel, 
 and also on some of their own festivals. 
 
54 Letters from China. 
 
 LETTER XIII. 
 
 June 7, 1 87-. 
 
 There has been a hohday for the last week, and 
 most of the inhabitants are off on expeditions up 
 the river, so , that an unusual silence has reigned 
 over the Arsenal. The only sound to be heard 
 for some days has been the distant beating of 
 gongs proceeding from the numerous boats on the 
 river, this being the Chinese Festival of Dragon 
 boats. 
 
 These boats are very long and narrow, are 
 gaily painted to imitate the national idea of a dra- 
 gon, and their high bow made to represent the 
 open mouth of the animal. 
 
 They hold from twenty to thirty people, most of 
 them armed with stout short paddles, others with 
 drums and gongs on which they keep up an inces- 
 sant noise while they race up and down the river. 
 
 The origin of this feast is said to be the death, 
 some thousand years ago, of a Chinese patriot who 
 having proposed some salutary measures, for the 
 good of the public, his prince not only declined to 
 follow his advice, but banished him from court, 
 which he took so much to heart that he went and 
 drowned himself. He being very popular, his 
 country-men assembled and sought for his body, 
 
Letters from China. 55 
 
 which they are supposed still to do at each anniver- 
 sary of his death. 
 
 The Festival is also accompanied by various 
 other superstitious observances, such as burning of 
 sacred paper, placing food before their ancestral 
 tablets, &c. 
 
 We took advantage of H.'s leisure time to re- 
 turn the calls of our few neighbours, and one day 
 had a charming row through all the shipping to 
 pay a visit at the other side of the Harbour, where, 
 from Mrs M.'s house, we had a most beautiful view 
 both up and down the river. 
 
 I have now also taken on myself the charge of 
 the house, having acquired a sufficient comprehen- 
 sion of the absurd and infantine language called 
 " Pidgen English " to understand, and make my- 
 self understood. 
 
 Housekeeping is altogether much simpler here 
 than it is at home, nor are we troubled as is the 
 case in India by being obliged "to have a large 
 retinue of servants. The Chinese have no fancies 
 ■ as to "caste" or of the same person not doing more 
 than one thing, so that a very moderate establish- 
 ment is sufficient. Our household consists of the 
 " Boy," a cook, house coolie, and gardener. Chair 
 coolies are also, generally speaking, necessary, 
 but they are not so to us, as we both infinitely 
 
56 Letters from China. 
 
 prefer walking, when we can go out at all. On 
 the rare occasions when we have gone in state, 
 " Catchee chair coolies," to the " Boy " is an order 
 which in five minutes has produced four athletic 
 bearers from outside. I use the word " athletic " 
 advisedly, as-they are a very strong, muscular race, 
 and seem to me, to carry heavy weights of human- 
 ity with astonishing facility. 
 
 Some people make their cook their principal 
 servant, but the Boy or butler is more usually put 
 in that position, and he is entirely responsible for all 
 the others, and for everything in the house, In en- 
 gaging the coolies he what is called " secures '' 
 them, and he in his turn is, or ought to be " se- 
 cured " by some person of known meatns, though 
 this rule, in the latter case, is not always acted on. 
 If, however, anything in the house is lost or 
 broken the value is deducted, when it can be so, 
 from his wages, and he is left to deal with the 
 coolies according to his will and pleasure, should 
 they be the delinquents. 
 
 The food department is easily managed, as the 
 all responsible "Boy" gets everything from a 
 Comprador, and it is his duty to see the latter does 
 not cheat you. Whether he always fulfils that duty 
 or £-oes shares in the amount to which you are 
 cheated is probably a doubtful qiiestipn. Judging 
 
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 by the result of monthly accounts, I should think 
 
 ' our servant does not indulge in the latter pro- 
 pensity to more than a very moderate extent, if 
 he does it at all. 
 
 When I mention food, your mind, I believe, 
 instantly reverts to puppy dogs and bird's nests as 
 our daily fare, and you will be much disap- 
 pointed to find that we have seen neither of these 
 but live on commonplace beef, mutton and poultry. 
 My practical housekeeping friends will like to 
 know what we pay for them, and will ask why 
 their lot has not been cast in China when I 
 mention that the former, which is excellent, is 
 
 " only seven cents (s^d.) a lb., but let them not 
 jump too rapidly to their conclusions, but wait 
 till they have their domestic hair set on end by 
 
 , the more than counterbalancing price of mutton, 
 which cannot be had for less than thirty or thirty- 
 two cents, having to be imported alive from 
 Shanghai. Large establishments import their own 
 
 ^sheep, and smaller ones sometimes join together 
 . for the same purpose, by which they are supplied 
 at a somewhat more reasonable rate, but in this 
 rural district we are very much at the mercy of 
 the Compradors who, in the hot season, do not 
 kill sheep at all, unless they are sure of disposing 
 of the whole animal immediately. Poultry is not 
 
58 Letters from China. 
 
 very dear, but decidedly lean and requires a great 
 deal of feeding up before being ready for the table ; 
 also, as it is sold by weight, care has to be taken 
 that is not increased by artificial means, such as 
 putting sand and pebbles among the feathers, and 
 various devices of that kind, in which the celestials 
 are great adepts. 
 
 I have only once penetrated into the kitchen, 
 as it, like the servant's dormitory, is in a separate 
 building from the house, but I returned from my 
 visit much impressed with the talent of the artists 
 who can produce such respectable cookery from 
 the little black holes, which answer the purpose 
 of a kitchen range. Various improvements as to 
 cleanliness and order were suggested, which I 
 hope periodical inspections may tend to carry out ; 
 but H. is not sanguine on the subject, and 
 evidently thinks the less I allow my mind to 
 dwell on the arrangement of Chinese kitchens, 
 the better my appetite is likely to be ! ' 
 
 We have nothing to do with the feeding of our 
 servants, that being included in their wages, which 
 are as follows, and I think, are very moderate. 
 The Boy has ten dollars a-month, the cook 
 eight, the coolies five, and the punkah coolie 
 three — the latter is a very necessary addition to 
 the establishment during the warm months. Rice 
 
Letters from China. 59 
 
 is the staple article of consumption, and as a pound 
 of it can be had for a few cash, of which small coin 
 there are twenty in a penny, there being about 
 fifty pence in a dollar, one dollar goes a long way 
 towards providing food for a Chinaman. A 
 little fish and vegetables serves as a sauce to 
 give piquancy to the rice, which they hold in a 
 small bowl close to their chin, and shovel into the 
 mouth with chop sticks. 
 
 As you perceive, an eastern household is com- 
 posed entirely of men, excepting the " Amah " or 
 lady's attendant, who is not mentioned in the 
 foregoing list, for the excellent reason that I have 
 not yet found one. We had some difficulty in 
 making the servants understand that they must 
 knock at " Missisy's " door, and not walk into my 
 room in their usual unceremonious fashion, 
 but they at last seem to comprehend the propriety 
 of doing so. 
 
 One, of the most disagreeable customs the 
 Chinese have, is the length to which they allow 
 their nails to grow. In the case of one's own 
 servants their eagles claws are, of course, at once 
 ordered off, and H. finds it quite necessary to 
 pursue the same system with his pupils by having, 
 every now and then, a parade for the cutting of 
 nails. I should like to carry our despotism a little 
 
6o Letters from China. 
 
 further and insist on the washerman doing the 
 same thing, as every week my nerves are severely 
 tried by seeing these terrible appendages when he 
 counts over the clothes. You probably know 
 that in the east the washing is done by men. I 
 had forgotten that fact, and our washerman is so 
 singularly like an old woman, I did not at first 
 discover that she was a man ! The difference of 
 dress does not strike one immediately, for the men 
 when at work generally roll their cues, turban 
 fashion, round their head, so that a casual observer 
 may very naturally mistake the identity of the two 
 sexes. 
 
 I have just been reading in William's Middle 
 Kingdom what was the origin of the said cue, for 
 it appears the Chinese did not always wear their 
 hair as they do now, but in 1627, were ordered 
 by the conquering Manchus to adopt the coiffure 
 of the latter as a sign of allegiance, and on penalty 
 of death. 
 
 Previous to that date they wore their hair long, 
 and bound on the top of their heads like the 
 Loo-Choo islanders ; but' since then, the fashion 
 which w^s forced on them has become the national 
 one. 
 
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 LETTER XIV. 
 
 \%th June 1 87-. 
 
 I received your welcome letter two days ago ; 
 and yesterday afternoon, when the thermometer 
 descended to 90, and the sun went down, I paid 
 Madame D. a visit to tell her the discovery that 
 had been made of our having mutual friends. 
 She instantly opened her album and showed me 
 all their photographs ; and you cannot think how 
 pleasant it was to us both to find, when in a 
 distant land, this bond of common interest. We 
 had only lately become acquainted, owing to my 
 not being aware that it was in accordance with 
 French manners and customs for newly married 
 people to take the initiative in calling. 
 
 The heat, which the rains coming later than 
 usual delayed for a few weeks, has now fairly set 
 in. Last Sunday, when we went to Church twice 
 — in the morning to practise, and in the evening 
 for service — -I really felt the steep, rough walk 
 was rather too much in such a temperature, and 
 think seriously of having recourse to the hitherto 
 despised chair. Every one is clothed in white, 
 and even that is reduced in quantity to a 
 minimum. 
 
 My installation as housekeeper has been 
 
62 Letters from China. 
 
 inaugurated by what at home would be called a 
 "Spring cleaning." The constant washing of 
 floors and splashing of water has rather a 
 pleasant, cooling effect. A good deal of practical 
 instruction is required by our male housemaids, 
 which has the advantage of occupying the atten- 
 tion, and preventing its dwelling too constantly 
 on the gradual dissolution of one's bodily frame ! 
 
 yune 2,0th. — Nothing very worthy of record 
 has happened lately. We again dined with 
 Monsieur G. He and some other friends dined 
 with us ; and several times the musical fraternity 
 have made their appearance to pay us an evening 
 visit in the pleasant foreign, sans cdrSm,onie 
 fashion. On one of these occasions a fat old 
 mandarin whom we knew came in search of 
 Monsieur le Directeur, who carried him off to 
 his own house, but was much upbraided by the 
 former for doing so, and for not inviting him to 
 come in to hear what he called " that sing-song." 
 
 Our piano is, alas ! proving rather a failure, in 
 so far that it declines to screw up to above a 
 tone and a half below concert pitch. We invoked 
 the aid from Foo-Chow of the only person who 
 can tune pianos, and as he broke a string in the 
 attempt, I fear what he says must be right, and 
 that there is something radically wrong. We 
 
Letters from China. , 63 
 
 have therefore resolved to part with it and use 
 our invaluable harmonium, whose health nothing 
 seems to effect, until my own piano or another 
 can be sent from England. It is the common 
 belief here that no instrument will stand the 
 climate that is not made expressly for the pur- 
 pose. My theory is, that what is a first-rate 
 instrument at home will do best here also, but 
 you must have some more practical opinion than 
 mine before deciding. 
 
 LETTER XV. 
 
 July 22d, 1 87-. 
 
 I must hasten to relieve your minds, which may 
 not unnaturally be anxious about us after hearing 
 of this horrible massacre at Tien-tsin. 
 
 You know Tien-tsin is far away from this, in 
 a totally different part pf the empire — which fact 
 would, however, be of no consequence were the 
 horrors committed there to be regarded as the 
 beginning of a national effort to get rid of 
 foreigners. Here, we have a great safeguard, 
 and that 15 self-interest, as the Chinese have laid 
 out millions of dollars in the establishment of this 
 Arsenal, in which there are about seventy Euro- 
 
64 Letters from China. 
 
 peans (French and English) instructing them. 
 All this outlay would go absolutely for nothing 
 did any harm happen to us ; so, with a garrison 
 of Chinese soldiers behind the house to protect 
 us, we have no fear as to our safety. At the 
 same time we are hoping to hear that the French 
 intend to punish them soundly, and to insist on 
 sending out a few hundred troops to garrison the 
 Taku forts for some years — their expenses to be 
 paid by the Chinese. 
 
 Of course, if the celestials do not give in to the 
 French terms, there will be a war, and in that 
 case I do not know what would happen here. 
 The Frenchmen would have to go, and we could 
 hardly remain, when China is -at war with our 
 dear friend France, however no one seems to 
 think there is any chance of that, the general 
 opinion being that the Chinese would pay any 
 amount of money, of which they have plenty, 
 rather than fight. 
 
 Our arrangements, I am sorry to say, are likely 
 to be changed, in the course of a few months, as 
 it now seems probable, that H. may take his 
 school to sea. So much time had elapsed with- 
 out the Chinese carrying out the terms on 
 which he undertook to be the head of their 
 training department, it appeared as likely as not. 
 
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 that the drilling of their embryo sailors might 
 continue, as it had begun, in an imaginary ship on 
 shore, a very comfortable plan for us, in a domes- 
 tic point of view, though not at all satisfactory in a 
 professional one. I am, therefore, not allowed to 
 regret the establishment of the ship ! 
 
 The present plan is that he should sail about 
 the beginning of October, after the Typhoon 
 season is over, and cruise down to Hong-Kong, 
 spending some weeks en route. I have a slight 
 hope that if he remains there long, I may go by 
 steamer and join him ; but nothing is yet fixed. 
 Meantime we are making what H. calls my cage, 
 and its outer court (viz., the house and garden) 
 as pretty as we can, and the house is a very 
 cheerful one, which is a point in my favour, 
 during the long solitary days that are before me. 
 
 I wish you could see the Anchora,ge as it is at 
 present. On Sunday when we went to the top 
 of the hill above the church, with our backs to all 
 the ugly buildings and chimneys of the Arsenal, 
 the view of the harbour with about seventy fine 
 ships lying at anchor, and the beautiful broad 
 river and hills beyond was magnificent. 
 
 The hill you speak of in the views you have of 
 China, must be " Kushan " which is a principal 
 feature in the view from this, and is several feet 
 
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66 Letters from China. 
 
 higher than Ben Lomond. There is a Buddhist 
 Monastery half-way to the top, to which people 
 often go for change of air during the hot season, 
 as it is many degrees cooler than in the plain 
 
 ■ below. I have not yet been there, as H . is much 
 too busy for such expeditions. 
 
 We have met with a serious loss in the de- 
 parture of our very nice " Boy." The same mania 
 prevails among butlers in China, for shop-keeping 
 as exists in our own country, whenever they have 
 collected a little money, and ends very generally 
 with the same result, viz., losing it all. Our 
 servant has left us to join his brother in keeping 
 a shop at Hong-Kong, and in his place, we have 
 one who understands neither his business nor a 
 word I say. A glaring instance of the latter fact 
 occurred two days ago, when instead of scolloped 
 crab, there appeared at dinner a dish of hot 
 boiled crabs, and this incident has furnished my 
 husband with a handle for derision against the 
 distinctness of the orders given by his new house- 
 keeper, not soon to be forgotten ! How could I 
 possibly know that in order to make the stupid 
 old creature understand what was wanted, I 
 should have told him to " catchee that crab, takee 
 all that inside out, makee cut small, all proper, and 
 
 putee inside that crab's back ! " I am sure any 
 sympathetic housewife will feel for me. 
 
Letters from China. 67 
 
 LETTER XVI. 
 
 \2th August 187-. 
 
 A Steamer has come in from Hong-Kong bring- 
 ing no English letters, so the mail must have been 
 late. There is, however, a telegram with the 
 news that Prussia and France have declared war. 
 It seems very sudden, and we fear, may distract 
 France from punishing the Chinese as they ought 
 to do, for the outrages of Tien-tsin. 
 
 I am happy to say most of the hot weather is 
 now over, as we may expect September to be de- 
 cidedly cooler. To-day it is quite charming, the 
 thermometer only 85°, and a fresh breeze. What 
 makes the heat here very trying while it lasts, is, 
 that the nights are so little cooler than the days. 
 Many times the thermometer has stood at 87° 
 during the night in my bed-room with all the 
 doors and windows open. There is generally an 
 hour or two of comparative comfort just before 
 sunrise, so that I have some sympathy for one of 
 the cadets, who, when told what a good time the 
 early morning was for work, remarked readily 
 enough " Yes, sir, but it is a very good time also 
 for sleep." 
 
 J have no reason personally to complain of the 
 heat, not having suffered either from it or the want 
 
68 Letters from China. 
 
 of exercise. I have always been dressed by 7. 30 
 A.M., and been able to occupy myself within doors 
 very much as I should do at home : but H.'s 
 work exposes him very much to the sun, so that 
 by the evening he is generally quite knocked up. 
 I am therefore thankful on his account for the ap- 
 proach of the cool season. 
 
 Last week we again emerged from our quiet 
 life into the gayer world of Foo-chow, on the 
 occasion of a party being given at the Consulate to 
 which the musical talent of the Arsenal was invited 
 to lend its aid. The party was a most successful 
 one ; but it proved a very fatiguing expedition, as 
 contrary to the wishes of our hospitable host and 
 hostess, who had rooms prepared for us, we 
 foolishly insisted on coming back at night. The 
 return voyage was very tedious, as we started 
 between twelve and one, and did not get home till 
 six in the morning. Our polite Director had a 
 house-boat towed by the Arsenal steamer, in order 
 that I might sleep all the way ; but the heat and 
 mosquitos combined to frustrate all his consider- 
 ate arrangements for my comfort. 
 
 August i^t/i. — I was up early this morning and 
 went with H. to see the cadets at their gunnery 
 drill in the imaginary ship, and was much amused 
 by that part of the performance when some of 
 
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 them acted being killed and wounded in order 
 that their companions might learn to carry off 
 the bodies properly, and place the wounded in 
 safety. This exercise is expected to give much 
 satisfaction to the Imperial Commissioner, who 
 always likes some little novelty when he comes to 
 see the drill, as he intends to do in a few days. 
 
 LETTER XVII. 
 
 24M August 187-. 
 
 Since I wrote last we have had an excitement 
 of a most disagreeable nature. 
 
 One evening about a week ago, on going into 
 my room, I observed something lying on the floor, 
 and stooping to pick it up, found that it was 
 a bag, out of which rolled a number of small coins, 
 and which I knew had been locked up in a drawer 
 where money was kept. That we had been 
 visited by a thief was the thought which at once 
 flashed across our mind, and which proved, alas ! 
 to be the case. H.'s watch, several valuable 
 articles of mine — valuable in themselves, and still 
 more so for the sake of the donors, money to a 
 considerable amount — all had been carried off while 
 we were down stairs at dinner. There was no 
 doubt the robbery had been committed by some 
 
70 Letters from China. 
 
 one who knew the house and the habits of its mas- 
 ter and mistress well, for circumstances prove that 
 it was done in the dark. The candle which had 
 been brought had not been lighted and was left 
 behind like the bag of coins, when the thief, we 
 suppose, becoming nervous had fled too rapidly to 
 pick up the latter when it fell. 
 
 No time was lost as the Mandarin who lives at 
 the school went at once to the Yamlan, and within 
 an hour our servants were all arrested, with the 
 exception of the Boy, who was not in his room, 
 and was found soon after at an opium and 
 gambling shop, where, it turned out, he had been 
 in the habit of passing the night ever since he 
 entered our service a fortnight before. 
 
 N.B. — I ought to mention that this is not the 
 hero of the boiled crabs, with whom we parted 
 not exactly on account of his mal-treatment of 
 these shell-fish, but because of his general stupidity 
 and ignorance of his duties. 
 
 The excitement among the people from the 
 Yamiin was great. About ten Mandarins visited 
 the house in the course of the night, and in their 
 eagerness to see the exact spot whence our stolen 
 goods had been taken, were with difficulty re- 
 strained from penetrating into the sacred precincts 
 of my room. 
 
Letters from China. . 71 
 
 The other servants were sent back in the 
 morning after being bambooed to induce them to 
 tell all they knew, but circumstantial evidence is 
 so strong against the Boy, he is still in durance. 
 He suggested that his predecessor must have 
 been the thief, and the latter in his turn did the 
 same by his, so in the end they had three Boys at 
 the Yamtin, and my horror was great on Saturday 
 when our nice old servant who left us to go into 
 business, arrived here in a dreadful state of mind 
 with the cold drops of terror literally standing on 
 his forehead. He had persuaded the soldier who 
 arrested him to bring him to see us first, for 
 having been known for years as a most respectable 
 character, you can imagine his mental and physical 
 objections to paying a visit to the Yamiin, whence 
 no prisoner, guilty or innocent, returns, without 
 some experience of the bamboo. H. and Mon- 
 sieur G., however, got him off, and, poor fellow,^ 
 he returned in a profound state of gratitude to 
 them for doing so, and having given surety to the 
 commissioner that he would appear if required. 
 
 The truth is, the Chinese are sometimes so 
 cruel, one would hesitate again to appeal to them. 
 Their principle seems to be to punish everybody 
 that comes in their way, on the chance of his 
 being the right person. The Boy they now have 
 
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 for instance, is bambooed daily, and we were told 
 that one day he was suspended by his thumbs for 
 four hours. This process is supposed to be an 
 incentive to speaking the truth, and no doubt 
 would be so, were the victim not himself the 
 guilty person, which in the present instance he 
 probably is, and that being the case, as the reward 
 for truth would very likely be having his head 
 cut off, you will agree with me the inducement to 
 confession is not great. If he is innocent he is 
 certainly having a serious warning to sleep in the 
 right place and not at an opium shop. His having 
 been found in one would quite prevent our taking 
 him again into our service, however innocent of 
 the theft, as no opium-smoker can be trusted. 
 
 In case of being visited by any more thieves, 
 we now lock our doors when we go down stairs, 
 and have sent to England for latch locks, which we 
 think will be a great safeguard in a mansion which 
 is the common territory of two establishments. 
 
 LETTER XVIII. 
 
 i\th September, 187-. 
 
 Here we are, feeling quite cool and comfortable 
 again, for nothing could be more charming than 
 the temperature now is ! 
 
Letters from China. 73 
 
 Madame D. and I have paid several visits 
 to the Roman CathoHc Church to try a very 
 fine harmonium which has lately arrived from 
 France. 
 
 Of course she and her compatriots are greatly 
 excited about the war with Prussia, indeed we all 
 are, and I do nothing but read newspapers for 
 days after the mails come in. With these we are 
 very well supplied as our neighbour and we take 
 the Times and the Pall Mall Budget. 
 
 We are afraid all this commotion in Europe 
 may turn away attention from the Chinese who 
 are evidently much inclined to get bumptious in 
 the north, in consequence of no decided action 
 being taken regarding the Tien-tsin massacre ; 
 but surely in the cause of humanity such a bar- 
 barous outrage will not be allowed to pass without 
 punishment. 
 
 ■ The people in the north and those here are 
 quite a different race and speak a different dialect, 
 so that no one need be nervous about us. The 
 Imperial Commissioner also is a most despotic 
 individual and keeps them in very good order. 
 He was most indignant about the robbery and did 
 all in his power to discover the offender. Our 
 servant was kept in prison for a rnonth, in spite 
 of various efforts on the part of his friends at Foo- 
 
74 Letters from China. 
 
 chow to have him liberated, but " the tyrant Shen" 
 as some people call him, reasoned thus : — 
 
 Circumstantial evidence was strongly against 
 the Boy ; he, being principal servant in the house, 
 wis responsible for everything in it. Instead of 
 being found where he ought to be, he was sleeping 
 at an illicit opium shop, and opium smokers are 
 notoriously not to be trusted, therefore in any 
 point of view, he deserved to be punished." I 
 confess to being quite of the same opinion, and 
 after it was ascertained that the periodical 
 floggings and suspensions by the thumbs, had 
 been discontinued, I had no further compassion 
 for the delinquent. Nothing has been heard of 
 our lost property, and I fear now, there never 
 will be. 
 
 The progress made in preparing the " Foo- 
 Sing " {Anglice, " Lucky Star") for sea is so slow, 
 she probably will not be ready till November or 
 December, so the evil day when I shall be left 
 alone is happily postponed. 
 
 I went a few days ago to see her put on a 
 patent slip which has lately been constructed here, 
 and is considered rather a novelty of the kind, as 
 the vessel is taken up sideways instead of being 
 pulled up by its nose ! Most of the inhabitants of 
 the Anchorage and Arsenal were present to see 
 
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 its first performance, which was accompHshed with 
 perfect success. 
 
 TyOth. — We went this morning in the EngHsh 
 gunboat stationed here, to Foo-chow — shopped 
 at a large store there, called on some friends, and 
 returned in time for dinner in a gig which had 
 been towed up for the purpose. A very warm 
 day ended in a torrent of rain, so we came back 
 looking as if we had been taking a walk in a 
 shower bath. 
 
 We have had very heavy rain several times 
 lately, which has had a most reviving influence 
 on the garden. There are some beautiful hibiscus 
 and pomegranates in bloom, and the most 
 gigantic cocks' combs I ever saw. The soil 
 must evidently be very productive, notwithstand- 
 ing the hard baked appearance the constant 
 watering, and grilling by the sun gives it during 
 the hot season. 
 
 We have sown some of the seeds sent from 
 England, as we are told this is a good time for 
 doing so ; but have kept part of them to sow in 
 Spring, that we may learn from personal experi- 
 ence which season is best for the purpose. 
 
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 LETTER XIX. 
 
 2oth October 187-. 
 
 Our Imperial Commissioner has just lost his 
 father ; and some days ago a sheet of paper, 
 about a yard and a half long and half as broad, 
 covered with Chinese characters, was handed in 
 by a messenger from the Yamun, which we 
 rightly concluded was the announcement of the 
 event. 
 
 It may amuse you to read the translation of it, 
 kindly made for me by a friend who is a good 
 Chinese scholar, as well as a few of his remarks 
 on the ceremonies alluded to : 
 
 [translation.] 
 
 " To His Hotiour Siln, 
 
 Naval Professor. 
 
 " Be it known that the unfilial Pao-chen [writer of this 
 letter] who, on account of his manifold and grievous crimes, 
 was worthy of sudden death, has not died, and that, instead, 
 the calamity has fallen upon his worthy father ; upon whom 
 the reigning Emperor of the Ta Tsing \t.e., Great Pure] dynasty 
 had conferred the iirst order of rank in the Civil Service and 
 that in the Imperial Body Guard, and the Governorship of the 
 Province of Keang-se. 
 
 " In the twelfth year of the reign of the Emperor Tao- 
 Kuang, at the competition of the literati he gained the rank 
 
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 of Chu-jen '[i.e., the second highest literary rank open to com- 
 petition]. 
 
 " The writer's father, Tan-lin [so called by relatives and 
 friends], fell sick on the 9th day of this month, and lingered 
 in great pain until the 12th, when he passed away. 
 
 " He was bom about two or three in the morning of the 
 28th day of the 9th moon in the 5 2d year of the reign of the 
 Emperor Kien-Wong, and was therefore somewhat over eighty- 
 four years old. 
 
 " Immediately he expired, the family went into mourning, 
 and now, alas ! have sorrowfully to communicate with you. 
 
 "We have chosen the i8th, 19th, and 20th for the return 
 presentation of this card \i.e., a reception will be given on 
 those days to those who wish to mourn : no admission without 
 this card]. 
 
 " No funeral presents can be received. 
 
 " The writer and his brother are kneeling with forehead in 
 the dust, weeping tears of blood. 
 
 "The sons of the writer and of his brother, nine in number, 
 are kneeling with downcast faces, weeping tears of blood. 
 
 "The relatives and descendants \i.e., kindred not so nearly 
 connected], to the number of nine, are on their knees [before 
 the coffin], beating their heads upon the ground. 
 
 " [Dated from] The residence of the writer, named the 
 Ancient Grotto of the Fairies." 
 
 Our friend writes to me as follows : 
 " I send you the translation with a note or two 
 in brackets to explain the text. 
 
 " I have been present at some of these solemni- 
 
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 ties, and have seen the 'blood weeping' and 
 ' head-bumping,' alluded to. 
 
 " They do bump and howl most dreadfully, but 
 refresh themselves with tea every five or ten 
 minutes, and then begin again. 
 
 " As the bumping and howling is accompanied 
 by a full Chinese brass band, gong, drum, 
 trumpet, and triangle, the effect is not exactly 
 that produced by the Orchestra at the Queen's 
 Theatre, but it is certainly as overpowering, 
 though in a different way ! " 
 
 I was very sorry that "His Honour SAn" 
 (who, I hope you recognise under his Chinese 
 cognomen,) did not accept the invitation and 
 accompany the Director to pay his respects on 
 the occasion, as I might then have been able to 
 give you a more minute account of what took 
 place. Mon. G., however, seemed to think that 
 his going and sending presents according to 
 Chinese etiquette, in his own name, and that of 
 the other European employes would be sufficient. 
 He told me that when he went to pay his visit of 
 condolence, he was received by the Commissioner 
 in the attitude of a dog on his hands and knees, 
 and groaning and sobbing all the time. Mon. 
 G. expressed his sympathy as well as that of the 
 
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 other officials of the Arsenal ; but poor " Shen " 
 only listened for a moment, and then resumed his 
 lamentations. 
 
 The body will not be buried for a hundred 
 days, during which time any number of visitors 
 must be received in like manner. 
 
 According to Chinese customs, no one ought 
 to marry or transact business for three years 
 after the death of a parent, and the higher the 
 rank, the more rigidly has this rule to be attended 
 to. On account, however, of our Commissioner's 
 services being so much required, the Emperor has 
 given him a dispensation whereby he may abstain 
 from business for a hundred days only, another 
 Mandarin being appointed to take his place 
 -meantime. 
 
 Should you like to know more about these 
 curious ceremonies attending the mourning for 
 the dead, a great deal of interesting informa- 
 tion on the subject is to be found in Mr J. Doo- 
 little's "Social Life of the Chinese." I tell 
 you only what comes under our own personal 
 knowledge. 
 
8o Letters from China. 
 
 LETTER XX. 
 
 ^th November 1%"]-. 
 
 To-day I have been visited by a number of 
 French Naval Officers from a gun-boat that has 
 just come in. They are all rejoicing at the fall of 
 the Emperor and hoping for the establishment of 
 a good (?) Republic, for which I of course upbraided 
 them with their inconstancy. 
 
 You will be sorry to hear that we are about to 
 lose our pleasant neighbour Madame D. Her 
 husband has eighteen months' leave of absence, 
 and there is therefore no object in their remaining 
 here, so they intend returning to Europe. 
 
 A very sad return it will be to them in the 
 present state of France, and not knowing where 
 to find their relations who fled from poor besieged 
 Paris. Madame D. will be a great loss to me, 
 especially in the solitary life I am likely to have 
 sometimes, and of which I had a foretaste a few 
 days ago when H. and his pupils went their trial 
 trip in the " Foo-Sing." It lasted two days only 
 but they appeared very long ones. One of my 
 grievances (and who is not troubled with such ?) 
 is that from our house we cannot see the Harbour, 
 so that I have not even the variety of watching 
 
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 the arrivals and departures, and the constantly 
 animated scene on the river. 
 
 I have had, however, three lively days to make 
 up for those two dreary ones. Our friends the 
 Consul and his wife have been staying with 
 Mon. G., at whose house we have dined, and had 
 music and billiards every evening. 
 
 On Friday Mrs S. spent the day with me, and 
 at four o'clock M. Le Directeur and H. made their 
 appearance to take us over the work-shops of the 
 .Arsenal. 
 
 About these I have never told you anything, for 
 the excellent reason that this was actually the 
 first time I had visited them ; but, as you know;, 
 what can be done any day, is proverbially that 
 which is most liable to be left undone. 
 
 Even now it is quite beyond my powers to tell 
 you all we saw, so let me hope that you, like me, 
 have not a mechanical mind. Suffice it to relate 
 that it is the largest establishment of the kind in 
 China, that we build ships,— make engines, — teach 
 various kinds of knowledge — and dearest of all to 
 the heart of the Director, have a huge steam-ham- 
 mer whose noise predominates over all our other 
 varieties of sound. 
 
 The chronometer shop seemed to me the most 
 interesting department, and the Chinese appear to 
 
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 be very clever in learning the art of watch-making. 
 There is something in the neat and detailed nature 
 of the work which suits them and makes it likely 
 to prove one of the most successful branches of 
 instruction. 
 
 On Saturday we were to have accompanied 
 Mr and Mrs S. back to Foo-Chow ; but it was 
 such a morning of wind and rain H. found his 
 troublesome ship had broken away from her moor- 
 ings, which prevented his going. I was therefore 
 preparing rather unwillingly to leave him behind, 
 when, to my great satisfaction a note arrived from 
 Mon. G. to say that he had persuaded his guests 
 to remain another day. 
 
 It being arranged that our visit should be post- 
 poned for a week we naturally expected to have 
 better weather, in which hope we were quite dis- 
 appointed,, as it poured in a manner that would 
 have been beyond apology even in our own rainy 
 country. 
 
 Had it been fine, we intended to have accom- 
 plished our voyage in a gig, which, with six oars, 
 is much the pleasantest mode of transit ; but 
 being so wet, we were obliged to have a house- 
 boat. 
 
 Though we started at nine o'clock, at eleven 
 we still found ourselves some miles from Foo- 
 
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 Chow with the wind and tide against us ; so the 
 cooHes had to jump out and run along in the 
 splashy paddy-fields, dragging us after them with 
 ropes in canal-boat fashion. Judging from the 
 laughter and fun that went on they must have 
 found it rather amusing ; and so did I for a time, 
 but it was also decidedly tedious. 
 
 Chairs had awaited our arrival for four hours 
 and then been taken home, thinking we were not 
 coming ; we had therefore to throw ourselves on 
 the mercy of some philanthropic friends who live 
 near the landing-place and who kindly sent us on 
 in theirs. 
 
 Notwithstanding the rain, we again sallied 
 forth in chairs after Tiffin to return the visits of 
 those who had calle4 on us when we stayed last 
 at Foo-Chow. There were a- feW people at 
 dinner, and in the evening we played bezique, 
 which seems to be a very popular game in this 
 part of the world. 
 
 As we could remain a day only, there was no 
 time for seeing anything of the native town or 
 surrounding country except as before, from a 
 distance. 
 
 On Sunday morning we went to the pretty 
 little consular chapel ; and after a hurried 
 Tiffin returned home with the clergyman when 
 
84 Letters from China. 
 
 he came to the anchorage for his usual afternoon 
 duty. 
 
 \oth. — The climate continues much too Euro- 
 pean at present in its sudden changes of tem- 
 perature. 
 
 Two nights ago we had a fire for the first time 
 since my arrival in China, and I must confess it 
 looked very cheerful and like home, when we 
 came up from dinner. 
 
 We are supplied with coal by the Chinese. It 
 comes from the Island of Formosa and is very 
 bad, but when mixed with that from England or 
 Australia, it burns tolerably well. 
 
 LETTER XXI. 
 
 \t,thNov.\%j-. 
 
 I trust my letter sent last week may reach its 
 destination. I put "via Marseilles" on it, hoping 
 that if that route should no longer be available, 
 it might be forwarded by any other that had been 
 established instead of it. I shall send this one 
 by Southampton, so that you may be sure sooner 
 or later to have your minds relieved by hearing 
 that we are alive and well. 
 
 We cannot wonder that all that is said in the 
 
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 newspapers^ should make our friends at home 
 very miserable about us. You would see, how- 
 ever; by our letters, if they have arrived as 
 regularly as they have been despatched, that we 
 have had no alarm here, and really feel ourselves 
 quite safe. 
 
 The latter fact is not due to the amount of 
 protection Britain gives her subjects in China, 
 but for reasons some of which I have already 
 mentioned, and others shall be given hereafter. 
 Meantime you are going to have a commentary 
 on what has been said on the subject in Par- 
 liament. 
 
 In the Times of the 28th September there is a 
 list given of the ships of war stationed at the 
 different ports, in which it is mentioned that the 
 " Severn " is at Foo-Chow ; and then there is a 
 kind of postscript stating that the " Banterer " 
 has been sent there, as if intended to denote 
 that the latter was in addition to the other ship. 
 It is impossible to believe that the statement 
 could be made with the wish to deceive ; but 
 there is a material difference in the amount of 
 protection the two ships would give — the 
 " Severn " being a large frigate, the other a small 
 gunboat. The former is laid up in ordinary at 
 Sheerness, which makes the mis-statement a very 
 
86 Letters from China. 
 
 glaring one to those whom it was said she is pro- 
 tecting. 
 
 The " Banterer " really is stationed here, or 
 rather was, for she is now at the town — a very 
 proper place for her to be, but if our government 
 think that a gunboat stationed at the town of 
 Foo-Chow is any protection to the inhabitants of 
 the Anchorage, or vice versa, except for the moral 
 effect of her presence, they are greatly mistaken, 
 as it is only in certain states of the tide that a 
 vessel can get up and down the river; hours, 
 therefore, must elapse before any gunboat could 
 come from one place to the other, and as the in- 
 habitants of Foo-Chow have very naturally re- 
 quested that it should remain there, it is quite 
 obvious that we are left unprotected he^'e. I may 
 also mention with regard to the " Banterer " that 
 her boilers are utterly worn out, so that she can- 
 not be considered in an efficient state. 
 
 There is also an imposing list of ships given as 
 being at Hong-Kong, which may very likely be 
 correct as regards gunboats, but people laugh at 
 the idea of the " Princess Charlotte " being men- 
 tioned as an available ship of war, she being 
 simply an old hulk used for firing salutes and 
 other peaceful purposes, but useless for any de- 
 fensive or offensive purpose. 
 
Letters froTU China. 87 
 
 When the massacre of Tien-tsin took place, the 
 only vessel the Admiral had available to send at 
 the moment, was the " Opossum." Naval men 
 tell us that at that time a large proportion of this 
 very old gunboat's crew wer^ Chinese, employed 
 temporarily to replace men who had died or were 
 invalided, the economical government finding it 
 too expensive to send out English sailors for that 
 purpose. (Of course other vessels arrived after- 
 wards.) 
 
 The Peiho being frozen up about this time, the 
 inhabitants of Tien-tsin must either be left for 
 some months without any protection, or the ships 
 sent there must remain during that time without 
 being able to move. 
 
 H. has always said' what you see Captain 
 Osborne now suggests in the " Times," viz., that 
 the Taku Forts should be occupied by European 
 troops. It was thought the French would do so, 
 and make the Chinese pay their expenses for 
 three years,, but their miserable plight making 
 that impossible, surely England, for their benefit, 
 as well as her own, ought to come to the rescue, 
 and do it for them. People say, that had Ad- 
 miral Keppel been in these seas now, he would 
 have taken possession of the Forts first, and 
 asked leave afterwards ! 
 
88 Letters from China. 
 
 It is not, however, surprising, that Consuls and 
 Naval Ofificers should be afraid to act with vigour, 
 when, if they do so, they are sure to be blamed 
 for it. 
 
 We rather expected that the French would 
 have seized the Chinese gun-boats, and held them 
 as guarantees for the" conditions they imposed 
 being carried into effect. Two of these vessels 
 left this just about that time to go to Tien-tsin, 
 but hearing at Chefoo what had happened, they 
 went no farther, and re-appeared here very soon 
 afterwards. No doubt there were some uncom- 
 fortable fears in the mind of their commanders, 
 as to what would be done if they were caught by 
 the French ! 
 
 As it is, the Chinese have had a great victory, 
 for since I wrote last week, the Director has had 
 an official announcement from the French Minis- 
 ter at Pekin to say that the Tien-tsin affair is 
 settled. About a dozen or fourteen of the sup- 
 posed ring-leaders are to be beheaded, and the 
 ruling Mandarin removed {report says to a more 
 lucrative post ! !) 
 
 The population being so large, coolies' heads 
 are not considered of much consequence and can 
 always be purchased, for, as the Celestials have not 
 the same fear of death, or ideas on the subject as 
 
Letters from China. 89 
 
 we have, it is easy to procure substitutes for real 
 offenders by paying a certain number of dollars to 
 the families of volunteers, which is probably what 
 has been done on the present occasion. The 
 Mandarin who is to be removed is the " Chung 
 How" who is mentioned in the leading article of 
 the 20th September, and who is generally believed 
 to have been, at all events, " accessory before the 
 fact" — it is said, he is the man chosen to go to 
 Paris, which seems rather insulting after what has 
 happened, unless he is sent for the purpose of 
 apologising. 
 
 We may, in fact, consider that the Chinese have 
 not been punished at all, as nothing has been done 
 that would the least degree intimidate them from 
 repeating the horrors of Tien-tsin to-morrow, if 
 they were so minded. 
 
 And now for a few comments on another state- 
 ment that was made at the same time that the list 
 of ships was given. 
 
 You were told that orders had been sent out 
 to the Consular and Naval authorities for the pro- 
 tection of the lives and property of British sub- 
 jects, which sounds very satisfactory, till you know 
 what very limited power is given them for carry- 
 ing these orders into effect. The amount of it is 
 simply this, that should there be any cause for 
 
go Letters from China. 
 
 alarm, as many Europeans as there is room for, 
 may be received on board our guardian gxm-boat, 
 — always supposing she happens to be here at the 
 time! 
 
 To show you the truth of what I say, I may 
 give an instance of the kind, which happened at 
 Shanghai, where the inhabitants were alarmed at 
 the time of the Tien-tsin affair, and appealed to 
 the Commander of a gun-boat lying in the harbour 
 to ask him to protect them, should any danger 
 arise. 
 
 His reply was, that he would be most happy to 
 receive as many as possible on board his ship, but 
 more than that, he had not authority to do. 
 
 When a disturbance of a serious nature took 
 place at Formosa, the Consul acted with vigour — 
 put it down with a high hand and there was an 
 end of it. He was rewarded for doing, so by be- 
 ing at once recalled, which he took so much to 
 heart that he died very soon afterwards. 
 
 A year ago there was some disturbance about 
 a Sanatorium which was being built for the use of 
 the Foo-Chow Missionaries, at Sharp Peak, a place 
 at the mouth of the river. 
 
 The Consul first applied for redress to the 
 Viceroy of the Province, who professed his total 
 inability to keep the people in order, and advised 
 
Letters from China. 91 
 
 Mr S. to take the law in his own hands. Accord- 
 ingly the latter sent down a gnnboat which very- 
 soon brought the culprits to their senses, with the 
 loss of life to one Chinaman. For this act of 
 vigour he was severely reprimanded by the home 
 government. 
 
 The above three instances, which we know -are 
 facts, will give you some idea whether the protec- 
 tion accorded to the English in China is quite as 
 satisfactory as our orators in parliament would 
 have you believe. 
 
 I must now, however, say something consola- 
 tory, after having told you so much that is the 
 reverse. 
 
 Firstly, then, the class of the community who 
 most hate foreigners and all the innovations on 
 the ancient customs of the country that they 
 bring with them, are the literati, of whom there 
 are very few where we are. But secondly, as far 
 as we ourselves are concerned, and all the other 
 Europeans employed in the Arsenal, it would be 
 a most senseless outrage on the part of the 
 celestial authorities were they to murder us them- 
 selves, or allow us to be murdered, when, if they 
 wish to rid themselves of our presence all they 
 have to do is to pay us handsomely for the 
 privilege of not fulfilling theii; contract and send 
 
92 Letters from China. 
 
 us home in peace and safety ! We therefore feel 
 so perfectly confident in the security of our posi- 
 tion that though we have received a most kind 
 and hospitable invitation from the friends at 
 Hong-Kong to whom you sent us an introduction, 
 we have decided that even when H. goes to sea, 
 it will be better for the present that I should 
 remain here. 
 
 LETTER XXII. 
 
 7.7.d November. 
 
 The " Foo-Sing " has broken away from her 
 moorings or otherwise misconducted herself, which 
 obliges H. to remain on board till two in the 
 morning. I shall therefore wile away the solitary 
 evening hours by a chat on paper with my rela- 
 tives "over the sea." First, then, let me relieve 
 your minds regarding the long expected boxes, 
 which have at last arrived in perfect safety. 
 How great the pleasure was in unpacking them 
 and imagining the care that had been bestowed 
 on all the marvellously done-up packages, I shall 
 not attempt to describe. Suffice it to say, every- 
 thing did credit to the tender care with which it 
 had been treated, by coming forth safe and sound. 
 
Letters from China. 93 
 
 The Bachelor Hull aspect of our abode is quite 
 changed, and as I sit looking round me, my eyes 
 are met on all sides by the sight of some pretty 
 souvenir of absent friends. 
 
 Dec. i']th. — You will rejoice to hear that H. is 
 not going to sea at all for the present. After he 
 and his pupils were on board, and the day fixed 
 for their sailing, the Chinese at last made up their 
 minds to buy a ship which has been lying in the 
 harbour for some time, and is larger and much 
 more suitable for training purposes than the "Foo- 
 Sing." 
 
 The order now is that every one is to come on 
 shore, and the cadets to resume their old quarters in 
 the school behind the house till the new ship is 
 ready, an arrangement which meets with my com- 
 plete approval ! H . however, is rather sorry not 
 to go one voyage in the " Foo-Sing," for though 
 he considers her too small and otherwise unsuit- 
 able for a training ship, he has had much trouble 
 in accomplishing her being fitted up to suit his 
 English ideas, and now the whole thing has to be 
 done over again before the "Matador" is trans- 
 formed into a man of war. 
 
 Another pleasing excitement we have had 
 within the last few days, has been the arrival of 
 the "Salamis," and consequently our having had 
 
94 Letters from China. 
 
 a number of visitors, including ' the Admiral, a 
 most kind-hearted old sailor, and full of fun. He 
 assures me we are to have a good large ship sent 
 here to take care of us, which will not be able to 
 get up the river to the town. The assurance, 
 though very pleasant to us, may not be so agree- 
 able to our neighbours at Foo-Chow ! 
 
 19//^. — The "Boy" has just appeared at the 
 door in convulsions of laughter, leading two 
 monkeys — an addition to the family, presented to 
 us by the Captain of the " Matador.". 
 
 I wonder if our usually grave domestic sees, as 
 his mistress does, the striking likeness these 
 animals bear to many of his countrymen ? That 
 question must remain for the present unsolved, 
 as the more important one now arises — " What 
 shall we do with thepi ? " The intelligent " Boy " 
 at once suggests a dog box and a chain in the 
 down stairs verandah — a very good idea, which is 
 instantly acted on, as the presence of this interest- 
 ing mother and daughter amongst our newly- 
 arrived drawing-room ornaments, makes me feel 
 rather nervous ! I must now, however, go and 
 display a proper amount of hospitality to our very 
 human-looking new pets, for they, being inhabit- 
 ants of Java, will probably, require some care 
 during the cold winds which prevail here in winter. 
 
Letters from China. 95 
 
 LETTER XXIII. 
 
 2,1st December. 
 
 I must write one more letter ere this old and 
 eventful year is quite dead and gone. . . . 
 
 The last week of 187- has been an unusually 
 gay one, another large ship having been launched, 
 and a number of people came from Foo-Chow to 
 witness the ceremonies, and lunch with the 
 Director. Some of the ofificers of the newly- 
 arrived English corvette, which has been sent as 
 promised, to protect us, were greatly amused by 
 the guns with which the Chinese soldiers fired 
 their salutes — ancient gingalls, requiring two or 
 more men to fire them, one man at least, kneel- 
 ing in front and presenting his shoulder as a 
 kind of gun-carriage, on which the man behind 
 supports his cumbrous weapon while he fires it. 
 
 I believe I have never yet given you any de- 
 scription of the Chinese soldier, though crowds of 
 them (it is impossible to apply the word regiments 
 to such a confused-looking array) constantly pass 
 our windows. On ordinary days, when no drill 
 is going on, they are utilized in various ways, 
 carrying mud, stones, &c., in fact are employed 
 as common labourers, but on great occasions, such 
 as the launch of a ship, or when a guard of 
 
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 honour is required for any important magnate, 
 they come forth in full uniform. The latter is 
 made of blue and yellow cotton, and each man 
 has on his back a large white hieroglyphic indi- 
 cating the number of the regiment to which he 
 belongs. They are armed with old-fashioned 
 matchlocks or musketoons, called in China 
 g;ingalls, which they load by pouring in the 
 powder and shaking the shot down on the top of 
 it, without using any ramrod. These, with a 
 powder-horn and an umbrella strapped across 
 their back, form the warlike accoutrements of the 
 fighting men belonging to the Chinese Rifle 
 Brigade ; but at least a tenth of them carry only 
 large flags. Whether the latter are supposed to 
 have an exciting or intimidating effect on their 
 enemies, I cannot tell ; the general effect, how- 
 ever, is extremely amusing, when they happen to 
 be caught in a shower, or, when too late, as they 
 usually are, for the hour of assembling, all attempt 
 at order is then abandoned, and helter-skelter 
 they go, laughing and chattering as they run. 
 Besides these, there are the spear and javelin- 
 men, who are all drilled singly. To give you any 
 idea of the extraordinary contortions they go 
 through during the process of drill, is certainly 
 beyond the power of my pen, and I believe of 
 
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 any other person's — not even the curious figures 
 on Chinese and Japanese porcelain can fully con- 
 vey to your mind the grotesque movements of 
 these strange people. 
 
 And now having described the nature and dis- 
 cipline of the Chinese army, I must return to our- 
 selves and tell you of the pleasant visit we have 
 paid our friends at Foo-Chow. Having missed 
 the steamer which was to have conveyed us, we 
 performed the voyage in a Sanpan, accompanied 
 by two of the officers of the " Zebra." The 
 weather was very cold and rough, so our passage 
 was far from agreeable, especially to one of our 
 friends, who found the waves of the " Min " and' 
 peculiar motion of our too heavily laden little bark 
 anything but conducive to his happiness. At last 
 human patience could stand it no longer, so we 
 decided on walking the rest of the way, which en- 
 abled us to arrive in time for a late Tifiin. 
 
 After church on Christmas day we walked about 
 seven miles, much to my enjoyment, the air was 
 so exhilarating and the country so pretty. There 
 was actually thick hoar frost and thin ice seen in 
 the morning — a state of things which luckily for 
 us, is vqry unusual, the houses being constructed 
 with a view to keeping their inhabitants cool, but 
 with very little regard to the reverse arrangement. 
 
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 Only fangy your bathroom being enclosed only by 
 , Venetians, through which a keen north-east wind 
 blows ruthlessly. 
 
 Most of the day on Monday was employed in 
 decorating the ball-room, in which occupation we 
 considered much genius for art was developed. 
 The dinner-party and dance which followed were 
 eminently successful. Sir Roger de Coverley, 
 with which the latter concluded, evidently amused 
 our Chinese spectators more than anything. One 
 of them said to Mr F. " Supposee you rtiakee jump 
 all same that fashion, must makee tipsey first." For 
 the sake of his own good character as well as that 
 of his guests, our host had to explain tliat " Sup- 
 posee we makee tipsey, we no can makee jum,p, but 
 makee fall down I" ■ 
 
 Next morning some other friends had, what 
 was called a hunt breakfast, which meant that all 
 ladies who possessed riding habits put them on, 
 and sporting men came booted and spurred. 
 
 The proceedings of the day began with the 
 party, sixty in number, being photographed in a 
 group, which, of course, proved as «;«successful 
 as such things generally are. 
 
 Phase second, was the breakfast, after which 
 about twenty enthusiastic equestrians started to 
 the top of the hill? above Foo-Chow, all the ponies 
 
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 in the town being put in requisition for the occa- 
 sion. I was mounted on an excellent old racing 
 pony with whom I very soon established a friendly 
 understanding— a very necessary thing to do with 
 these hard-mouthed quadrupeds who are apt to 
 take the bit in their mouth when so minded, un- 
 less they have a due respect for their rider. My 
 friend " Sandy " and I, however, knew instinctively 
 that we both intended to enjoy ourselves, so up 
 hill and down hill we went, scrambling, jumping, 
 and galloping in perfect amity and mutual satisfac- 
 tion. The view from the top was glorious, the 
 weather lovely, and every one kind and pleasant, 
 so the day will ever be remembered by me as one 
 of the white ones of my life in China. 
 
 On our return to the ordinary haunts of men, 
 we found the more sober-minded portion of the 
 community assembled on a rising ground in front 
 of the Consulate, round which, and for their 
 especial amusement, the whole cavalcade had a 
 farewell race. Then, and then only, my praise- 
 worthy steed showed symptoms of wishing to 
 consign me to one of the numerous horse-shoe 
 graves of his countrymen, no doubt thinking that 
 the final scamper was quite unnecessary after his 
 previous exertions ! That night we retired to 
 rest in good time to prepare for the festivities of 
 
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 the following- evening, when there was a rechauffe 
 on a larger scale of the previous dinner-party and 
 dance. This terminated our Christmas gaiety ; 
 but musical parties are talked of for the beginning 
 of February, when, being the Chinese New Year, 
 H. hopes to have three weeks' holiday. 
 
 LETTER XXIV. 
 
 \st January 187-. 
 
 The year, I believe, was ushered in by our 
 fellow Europeans with much firing of guns 
 and sending up of rockets ; but all these demon- 
 strations were lost on the lazy people, who, 
 plunged in the arms of Morpheus, heard none of 
 them. 
 
 To-day we have had a great many visitors, it 
 being the fashion here for every one to call or 
 leave cards ; which latter custom has been 
 adopted by the Imperial Commissioner and some 
 other Mandarins, from whom we received pretty, 
 bright-coloured bits of paper on which were 
 stamped the characters signifying their name. 
 Of course the Chinese card of His Honour-Sun 
 was returned in due form. 
 
 We had also other proofs of regard for our 
 
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 New Year from our Celestial neighbours in the 
 arrival of the usual goose, capon, and two bottles 
 of wine from the Yam{in ; a cake from the Com- 
 prador, which, if not appreciated by ourselves, is 
 highly so by the monkeys ; and' a large basket of 
 mandarin oranges from the good old washerman. 
 Of the latter delicious fruit there are quantities 
 at this season, as well as of the firmer skinned 
 orange, which, grows more plentifully at Amoy. 
 Indeed, the supply of fruit is very good here at 
 most seasons. Besides oranges, there are the 
 lychee, guava, lunyan, loquot, and various other 
 species more or less eatable, which grow in this 
 neighbourhood ; while from the North we have 
 peaches, grapes, and figs. From Amoy comes 
 the pumelo (called shaddock in the West Indies), 
 and from Formosa we receive frequent presents 
 of pine-apples and mangos. All kinds of vege- 
 tables are also cultivated with great success at 
 this time of year, which is the season of plenty 
 as well as of coolness. Fish, too, there is 
 in abundance, and game of varied kinds. Phea- 
 sants are sold for less than a dollar by the Com- 
 pradors, and considerably cheaper by the hawkers 
 who frequently bring them to the door. Wild 
 duck, snipe, and quail are bought at a proportion- 
 ably reasonable price. Partridges are to be had, 
 
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 though not so plentiful, and woodcocks are but 
 rarely seen. The business of Foo-Chow being 
 confined almost exclusively to tea, which does 
 not come into the market till about May, the 
 merchants have little to do during winter : those, 
 therefore, who are sportsmen find a congenial 
 occupation for spare time in going up the river 
 on shooting expeditions. The more enthusiastic 
 often go to Shanghai and thence to the Grand 
 Canal, where they find game both more abundant 
 and in greater variety. We have lately had 
 ocular demonstration that roe-deer exist farther 
 north, by having received the present of part of 
 one, from a friend at Shanghai. 
 
 Fishing in the river is carried on to a great 
 extent by the use of Cormorants. These birds 
 are grey, about the size of a large goose, and are' 
 trained to dive in search of the fish. When con- 
 tumacious, they sometimes manage to swallow 
 the little ones, but are prevented from making 
 away in like manner with the large fish, by having 
 a string tied loosely, or else a metal ring, round 
 their neck. A well-trained bird, when he catches 
 his prey, will at once swim towards his master, 
 who, of course, goes to meet him, and when near 
 enough, passes a net bag over the two and drags 
 them on to his raft. The bird, if he has caught 
 
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 a good fish, is rewarded with some food and 
 allowed to rest for a time while his companions 
 take their turn of work, for a fisherman has 
 generally several birds with him. 
 
 Among the delicacies of the cool season, I must 
 not forget to mention the small oysters for which 
 Foo-Chow is remarkable, and which are grown in 
 quantities on bamboos in the river. 
 
 I LETTER XX -V. 
 
 January loth. 
 
 Hearing a sound which somewhat reminded 
 me of my national "pipes," I looked out of 
 the window and beheld a red and gilt chair 
 preceded by a number of people playing on 
 instruments made of bamboo, and in form 
 resembling a flute, while others carried baskets, 
 lanterns, and an umbrella. " Boy " informs me it 
 was" a "gentleman going to catchee wife! " 
 
 The catcheeing of a wife is as serious an affair 
 in China as it is elsewhere, and accompanied by 
 many more forms and ceremonies than in most 
 countries, nor is the important matter of a 
 trousseau regarded by the Chinese women with 
 less interest than that of their western sisters. 
 
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 There is, however, this difference between their 
 custonls and ours, that, except in the case of 
 wealthy families, the wedding outfit is very 
 generally paid for, principally, by presents received 
 from the bridegroom's relations. 
 
 Marriages are often arranged while the bride 
 and bridegroom are yet in their cradle, so that 
 the parties most concerned have not much 
 responsibility in the matter ; but I am told that 
 such engagements are rarely broken off. The 
 whole system is very patriarchal^-the sons marry 
 young, generally when they are about eighteen, 
 and take their wives home, where they are ex- 
 pected to work for their father and mother-in-law 
 as daughters of the house. In the case of very 
 poor parents having a female infant to dispose of, 
 she is sometimes handed over at once for a small 
 consideration to the husband's family, and is then 
 brought up along with her future lord and master. 
 Both the betrothal and the marriage itself are 
 attended with endless superstitious observances, 
 and the day on which the latter takes place is 
 decided with great attention to its being what is 
 considered a lucky one. 
 
 Parents have another and shorter way of dis- 
 posing of their overplus female children, when 
 poor, and they see no prospect of being able to 
 
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 afford to have them married, viz., putting them to 
 death, and people tell me that in the rainy season 
 dead bodies are frequently seen floating in the 
 river. 
 
 I have also been told by a very old English 
 resident in China, that he has known of a marriage 
 being celebrated with all the usual forms and cere- 
 monies after the death of the contracting parties. 
 It is not very common, and is probably done on ac- 
 count of some arrangement about property. The 
 names of the Bride and bridegroom are written on 
 a piece of bamboo which is put in their respective 
 chairs, and then the chair of the Bridegroom is 
 carried to the Bride's house and the two chairs 
 then return to the house of the Bridegroom's 
 father, where all the usual feasting, &c., takes 
 place. 
 
 Since my last letter was despatched we have 
 been enduring the discomfort of having our rooms 
 painted^not quite such a lengthy process as in 
 England, as the art of house painting has not yet 
 arrived here at that degree of perfection which 
 , entails much labour. Judging from the odious 
 smell, the paint must, be of a very coarse quality ; 
 it is rubbed on with a kind of sponge made 
 of bamboo shavings, and afterwards slightly 
 smoothed over with a brush. One remarkable 
 
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 anomaly in the conduct of the artists which I 
 have observed, is, that they do not sing while at 
 work like the British painter, an omission for which 
 we have great reason to be thankful, as a Chinese 
 song is something like a Gaelic one, only much 
 worse, more nasal and harsh in tone. 
 
 1 2th February^ — We are now looking forward 
 to our New Year's holiday, the 19th of February 
 being the ist day of what we Celestials call the No. 
 I. Moon. H. would very willingly spend the 
 time quietly at home, which, however, he is not 
 likely to be allowed to do, as we have various 
 hospitable invitations to go to Foo-Chow, and I 
 also hope to see something of the river scenery. 
 I think after the great heat one freezes at a higher 
 temperature, than in Europe, for the thermometer 
 has rarely been below 40, yet, clothed in serge 
 and all the usual habiliments of winter, you would 
 be surprised to see how much I have felt the cold, 
 and to hear the good British grumble at the keen, 
 dry, wind which has blown at times through our 
 airy mansion. I often have had to go into the 
 garden to get warm in the sun, as its rays never 
 penetrate into our north rooms in winter, the very 
 season when they would be welcome. 
 
 The weather we now have is charming, and I 
 have sown a number of seeds, but am assured 
 
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 my doing so is premature, as the No. 2. Moon is 
 the orthodox season for putting in seeds which 
 require heat, and that October is a better time 
 for the hardier kinds. Since I have displayed 
 so much energy in the cultivation of our small 
 domain, another implement besides the usual hoe 
 has been shown to me in great triumph by the 
 garden coolie as something very superexcellent. 
 From - the appearance of the article I should 
 imagine it to be the original or exact facsimile of 
 the rake used by our first parents in the garden 
 of Eden ! 
 
 At Foo-Chow we saw many beautiful camellias 
 flowering out of doors in pots ; but the plants are 
 quite as expensive to purchase as at home, which 
 seems curious, considering how near it is to Japan, 
 their native country. 
 
 We had intended going to-day to see a Chinese 
 funeral. It was to take place however at so 
 early an hour, that in order to be at the house of 
 the Chinaman, from which Mon. G. had arranged 
 we should witness it, it would have been neces- 
 sary to sleep in the city. Mr L. did not give a 
 very encouraging account of what his country- 
 men's manners were likely to be on the occasion, 
 for though, he said, we need fear no personal 
 violence, yet, unless I could see and not be 
 
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 seen, the mob would say everything coarse and 
 insulting they could think of, and in fact I 
 should create as great a sensation as the 
 funeral. 
 
 As neither of us know the language, their re- 
 marks would of course have been lost on us, but 
 not so on our escort, and H. did not like the idea 
 of my being exposed to their uncivilized rudeness. 
 My own ardour for sight-seeing also cooled down 
 on finding we should be the only Europeans in 
 the midst of the native city, and on such an ex- 
 citing occasion, so perhaps it was as well that our 
 both having severe colds decided us to give it up. 
 I fear, however, that we may not again have an 
 opportunity of seeing so great ^. function of the 
 kind, as it is said the procession was to be five 
 miles long. The Mandarin who was to be 
 buried, was a man of high rank — the father of 
 our Imperial Commissioner, whose death I men- 
 tioned some time ago. His son has been receiv- 
 ing visits of condolence ever since on his hands 
 and knees, so with ev^ry respect for his father, 
 I should think he must feel it rather a relief now 
 the old man's mortal remains are safely com- 
 mitted to their final resting-place ! The rever- 
 ence of the Chinese for their parents is certainly 
 one of the best features in their character, though 
 
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 some of the ways they have of testifying it are 
 very ludicrous to European notion^. 
 
 There will be a great deal of ancestor-worship 
 going on soon, the New Year being one of the 
 seasons peculiarly set apart for the purpose. 
 
 At that time feasts are provided and offered 
 at the tombs of their deceased relatives, which 
 are consumed by the living after they think the 
 spirits of the dead have had as much as is good 
 for them ! Notwithstanding their regard for the 
 dead however, their love of money is still greater, 
 of which we saw an instance one day lately when 
 wa,lking on the hill, we found a man busily em- 
 ployed m potting his ancestor ! Don't laugh and 
 accuse me of writing traveller's tales, as I can 
 assure you he was literally doing what I say — 
 picking his relative's bones carefully out of their « 
 grave, and putting them in a jar. On enquiry we 
 found that one of our neighbours wishing to ex- 
 tend his garden, had purchased the ground im- 
 mediately adjoining, on which there were a good 
 many graves, so our practically-minded China- 
 man was putting his relation's remains into this 
 handy form for removal. Among their many 
 superstitions it is evident they have no fear of 
 ghosts, for one often sdes numbers of poor people 
 living literally " among the tombs," i.e. making 
 
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 their homes in the small houses there are for' 
 holding coffins, and even using the latter as 
 tables. 
 
 There is one custom connected with this 
 season which western nations would do well to 
 imitate — all debts must be paid before the expira- 
 tion of the old year, otherwise the debtor is con- 
 sidered a disgraced man, and his reputation 
 seriously injured. Pawnbrokers, therefore, and 
 others are more than usually anxious to dispose 
 of their goods in order to pay their debts, so we 
 have a slight hope that some of our stolen pro- 
 perty may come to light, and the Consul has in- 
 structed his officials to be on the look-out for it. 
 
 February i<^th. — The Chinese New Year, and 
 coldest day we have had this winter. — Thermome- 
 ter only 52° in spite of closed windows and a 
 large fire. All work is at an end — stores closed, 
 and the Celestials clothed in holiday attire giving 
 themselves up to feasting and an extra amount of 
 gambling for the next ten days. We have had 
 numerous visitors (boat women, &c.,) asking for a 
 Cumshaw (present) which the servants also ex- 
 pect. H. and I went to the handsome Joss 
 House on the hill, thinking some religious cere- 
 mony might be going on, but found it in its usual 
 state of quietude. The priests, however, seemed 
 
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 very glad to see us, and offered us tea, and Scuttle 
 was rewarded as on a former occasion for her chin- 
 chinning, by some ''chow-chow " being given to her. 
 It may amuse you to see the somewhat flowery 
 style in which one of the Boys asks for prolonged 
 leave of absence. 
 
 " My dear Master, — As it is the filial duty of 
 a son to inquire his father's welfare after a long 
 absence from home, I beg humbly that you will 
 kindly confer me with a leave to do so, and if so 
 complied with further beg to allow me to come 
 back one week later than the expiration of the 
 yearly holiday's term, 
 
 Yours obediently 
 
 Tang See Cheung. 
 
 Mr Tang See Cheung and his companions all' 
 adopt the English Esq. in addressing their letters, 
 which looks very absurd after their Chinese names. 
 H. is much disgusted when people talk to his 
 pupils in " Pidgin English," which as you see from 
 the above specimen of orthography is quite un- 
 necessary. Much as one despises that infantine 
 language it saves one a great deal of trouble, for, 
 thanks to it, we are not obliged to learn Chinese, 
 which in this province is a very harsh and untempt- 
 ing tongue. The Mandarin dialect spoken at 
 
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 Pekin is much softer, but in every dialect so many 
 words have a different meaning varying with the 
 tone in which they are pronounced, that I should 
 think to acquire a thorough knowledge of the 
 language and its written characters would have 
 a decided tendency to soften the brain of the 
 learner. 
 
 March id. — We have just returned from a t'en 
 days' visit at Foo-Chow, and send thanks to our 
 many praiseworthy correspondents for the satisfac- 
 tory budget of letters which we found waiting our 
 arrival. 
 
 There has been the usual round of amusement 
 — dinners — Tiffins — rides, and finally an expedi- 
 tion to the top of " Kushan " for which we started 
 at 8 A.M., yesterday morning. 
 
 It was a_glorious day, and the ascent a very easy 
 one as far as the Buddhist Monastery half-way up, 
 to which we were carried in chairs, and afterwards 
 proceeded on foot. The distant view was not very 
 clear, and the wind at the top, icy cold, so we did 
 not stay there long ; but the views further down 
 were lovely and the hill covered with all kinds of 
 beautiful shrubs. Walking in winter dress and 
 even then feeling so cold, it was difficult to realize 
 that nearly to the summit many of these were 
 azaleas, orange trees, &c; What they grow in is 
 
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 difficult to say, for on the high part of the moun- 
 tain the soil looks very arid. I suppose, how- 
 ever, they must find something good among the 
 stones to induce them to live at such a height. 
 • The people cut them down for fire wood in win- 
 ter, which gives them at present rather a snubbed 
 appearance, but about six weeks hence they will 
 be in flower, and then I hope to return as far as 
 the monastery, which is quite high enough to as- 
 cend for beauty of scenery. The Monastery itself 
 is all very curious. — Magnificent large gilded 
 images guarding its entrance and trampling under 
 their enormous feet the cleverest looking little 
 devils I ever saw ! 
 
 There are a great many sacred animals — pigs, 
 fowls, ' fish, creatures of all kinds, and all supposed 
 to be inhabited by some transmigrated spirit. 
 Two services take place daily in the temple, which 
 smells exactly like a Roman Catholic Church, in 
 consequence of the incense and joss sticks which 
 are kept perpetually burning. On some future 
 occasion we hope to see the service for which we 
 could not stay, the hour being 6 p.m., too late for 
 us to get home by day-light. , 
 
 While taking " tiffin " in a small outer part of 
 the temple, a man came to do his devotions for 
 the year, and appeared to be a very devout be- 
 
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 liever in his fine brazen image — which I question 
 whether many of his nation really are. He 
 "chin-chinned" and prayed for a long time, 
 between each act of devotion throwing up two 
 bits of wood, hoping to see by- the way they fell 
 what luck he was to have for the year ; but, alas ! 
 no answer came : his gods, like those of the 
 priests of Baal, were deaf to his call. One could 
 not help feeling sorry for the evident discomfiture 
 of the poor heathen, and wondering when, and by 
 what means the inhabitants of this great empire 
 are to be brought to worship the one true God. 
 
 From what we hear. Mission work advances 
 at present very slowly. The Mission schools are 
 tolerably well attend,ed ; for John Chinaman likes 
 to be educated, and willingly tolerates Christian- 
 ity for the sake of the knowledge he and his 
 children acquire by it, but there is reason to fear 
 the number of those who embrace the Christian 
 religion in sincerity and truth, is comparatively 
 small. 
 
 The proselytes to the Church of Rome are 
 much more numerous than those to Protestant- 
 ism — which can easily be accounted for, its mis- 
 sionaries having been at work for the last ' two 
 hundred years, whereas ' those of the various 
 Protestant denominations were only sent out at a 
 
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 very recent date. The system also of the Romish 
 Church certainly appears more suited, in some 
 respects, for missionary purposes. It is painful, 
 but only too notorious, that Mission work is 
 seriously impeded at the ports most frequented 
 by foreigners, owing to the often bad example of 
 the latter. Indeed, a Christian Chinese neigh- 
 bour of ours told me that it had been remarked 
 to her by some of her countrymen that the 
 foreign missionaries had better teach their own 
 people to behave well before interfering with 
 them ! Such being the case, it naturally follows 
 that conversions go on more successfully among 
 the unsophisticated inhabitants of the interior, 
 whom to reach, men have to adopt the dress of 
 the country, endure many hardships, and run end- 
 less risks — which it is obviously not in the nature 
 of things our married clergy can undertake. 
 
 After this digression on a subject which is too 
 large and difficult for my frivolous pen, I shall 
 conclude my letter with an amusing story told to 
 us a few days ago, and which proves the respect 
 the Chinese have for their deities will not stand 
 any very severe test. 
 
 On one occasion at Shanghai, when they were 
 very much in want of rain, they became so 
 indignant with their gods for allowing the earth 
 
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 to be so hot and parched, that in order to make 
 them reahse how uncomfortable it was to be 
 scorched in a burrting sun with no rain to cool 
 the air, they set them in the sun without um- 
 brellas or any other covering, not even providing 
 the poor " Josses " with their usual amount of 
 " chow-chow." They were left in this exposed 
 state for three or four days, after which the rain 
 came, and the gods were restored to their wonted 
 abode. Let us hope that this 'severe discipline 
 taught them to be more considerate for the 
 future ! 
 
 LETTER XXV L 
 
 March <,th. 
 
 For the last few evenings a number of 
 people have been going about in processions, 
 carrying lanterns and beating gongs — the 
 former made in the shape of fish, cocks, hens, 
 and some very large ones illuminated by numer- 
 ous lights, representing a dragon. This amuse- 
 ment is called " manoeuvering the dragon," which 
 is carried on poles by many bearers, so that the 
 animal wriggles about like a great sea-serpent. 
 This being the 15th day of the Chinese " No. i 
 
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 moon," is the day set apart for the special Feast 
 of Lanterns : the noise of crackers, guns, &c., has 
 therefore come to a cHmax, and the " manoeuver- 
 ing the dragon " more energetic than ever. , I 
 saw one being put through its contortions this 
 morning, but the Hght of day did not suit its 
 complexion, so it looked very miserable. 
 
 2<^th. — The weather has been very wet lately but 
 varied by some beautiful warm days, and yesterday 
 being one of them, I accepted the proffered escort 
 of Mon. G. and accompanied him and some other 
 friends to the races at Foo-Chow. The total 
 absence of roads makes an expedition of the kind 
 rather a complicated affair, though not on that 
 account the less amusing to a novice like myself. 
 We first started in a small steamer, from which 
 when it could go no further, we and our chairs 
 were removed into smaller boats — they, in their 
 turn had to be abandoned, after which we mounted 
 our chairs and were carried for three quarters of 
 an hour across country and through paddy fields. 
 Our voyage and journey occupied three hours 
 and caused our arrival to be very late and our- 
 selves very hungry. We were in time however to 
 see several races, the last, ridden by Chinese horse 
 boys, was much the most amusing, they looked 
 so extremely like monkeys. Racing these small 
 
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 ponies with such heavy weights seemed to me 
 rather cruel ; many of the poor little animals were 
 not above thirteen hands, and though very strong, 
 eleven stone must have been a disagreeable 
 amount of avoirdupois for them to carry. Our 
 return trip was even longer than the one " out- 
 ward bound," the wind and tide being, as 
 usual, against us, but the party were all musical, 
 so the time was pleasantly wiled away by many 
 a song, and we came back well pleased with the 
 day's excursion. 
 
 During the transit in single file along the 
 narrow raised pathways which are the only 
 boundary to the paddy fields, there was ample 
 opportunity for observing the Chinese mode of 
 agriculture. Their ploughs and harrows are as 
 primitive in their construction as the garden 
 implements described in a former letter, and are 
 drawn by very patient looking buffalos with a ring 
 through their nose ; to this is attached a single 
 rope, by which they are guided. The way the 
 fields are irrigated is very curious ; it is accom- 
 plished by means of chain pumps, which are 
 worked by either one or two people who walk 
 tread-mill-fashion on the arms of a kind of wheel, 
 supporting themselves as they do so on a pole 
 placed horizontally for the purpose. The pace 
 
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 at which they move regulates the quantity of 
 water that is thrown into the field. Of course the 
 carrying of grain is done, like everything else, by 
 a pole swung across the shoulders, the grain tied 
 in bundles at each end, for in the country, as at 
 the Arsenal, no carts exist. 
 
 LETTER XXVII. 
 
 April i^th, 187- 
 
 H. dined two days ago at the Yamun, and as I 
 cannot describe a feast at which I was not present, 
 he has written an account of it for your benefit 
 which I now enclose. 
 
 The only disagreeable official duty connected 
 with the Chinese Imperial service at this Arsenal, 
 is the annual dinner at the Yamun. On the first 
 occasion it was curious but, now the novelty has 
 worn off, it has become rather an infliction. 
 
 The whole of the foreign employes are invited to 
 these feasts. They are divided into four classes 
 of guests, each class dining in a separate room. 
 The fashion of the Chinese is not to use large 
 tables, but to divide their guests into small parties 
 at a number of little ones, which gives their dining- 
 rooms something the appearance of a European 
 Caf6. These tables usuallyaccommodate about six. 
 
120 Letters from China. 
 
 The guests of the first class were the Director 
 and three or four others next In importance. The 
 Professors of each department came next — then 
 the foremen of the different workshops, and finally 
 the workmen. One Mandarin or official of some 
 kind of rank comparative to the class of goiests he 
 was appointed to attend to, sat at each table to do 
 the honours and make himself agreeable. Many 
 of these belong to what are aptly called by their 
 countrymen " Yamun lice" (court parasites) and 
 are a numerous class who pick up a disreputable 
 living by "squeezing" money out of everyone 
 who comes to the Yamun to transact business, to 
 make complaints, or obtain justice : criminals too, 
 who are trying to escape justice extensively fee 
 them. 
 
 When the guests were assembled, our Host 
 (the .Imperial Commissioner) came in with a tea- 
 pot in his hand, and the attendants having handed 
 cups to us, he personally poured out the refreshing 
 beverage, and with many polite genuflections thus 
 made us welcome. 
 
 We then sat down at our appointed tables, and 
 the feast began. It is impossible to describe the 
 mdnu in detail, so various, so numerous, and so 
 mysterious are the dishes. 
 
 The table is furnished with saucers, small basins, 
 
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 a china-ware spoon, and a pair of chop sticks for 
 each person. The use of thfe chop sticks is soon 
 learned. Both sticks are held in the right hand, 
 and so arranged between the fingers that they 
 simply become a pair of tongs, and as in cooking 
 everything is " done to rags" there is no cutting 
 to be done, which with us, makes a knife and fork 
 indispensable. 
 
 The dinner was composed of everything except 
 Beef and Mutton, these being two articles of food 
 never, I believe, seen in a Chinese house. The 
 staple materials for their dishes are pork, fowl, 
 and fish, all kinds of vegetables, sea-weed, fungi, 
 and all sorts of curious things. Everything is boiled 
 and comes to table either in the form of soup, stew, 
 or haricot. 
 
 It is astonishing what absurd notions even 
 well-educated people in England have about the 
 uncleanly feeding of the Chinese. As there are 
 horse butchers in Paris, so, in some of the large 
 cities of China, there may be found a few shops 
 where dog, cat, or rat may ,be purchased, but I 
 fancy the consumers in both cases belong to much 
 the same class of the community. 
 
 The table is served by each person having a 
 " portion " of whatever the " course " may be, put 
 before him, but there is often a large dish placed 
 
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 in the centre, and also dishes of condiments that 
 each possessor of chop-sticks dips into in common. 
 As a rule I have found it wise to dine principally 
 on the more simple soups, and merely make a 
 pretence of eating those I could not clearly under- 
 stand. I may mention one dish, however, to 
 which justice was always done. It is made from 
 what in England are only used to pelt unpopular 
 candidates at elections. What process they 
 undergo before coming to table I know not ; they 
 appear like hard boiled, black eggs, stewed in 
 some very palatable sauce, and are really 
 excellent. 
 
 The number of ''courses" these dinners go 
 through, is very large. I think on one occasion 
 we had between thirty and forty, — -the dinner 
 lasting from three to four hours, and politeness 
 demands that you are to eat, or at all events 
 appear to ^2.\. of all. Rice wine hot, and very taste- 
 less, is constantly handed round. The Chinese 
 drink a great deal of it, and very often challenge 
 each other to see who can drink the most. I 
 never.^ however, saw any one made drunk by it, 
 they rnerely get excited in manner, and flushed 
 in the face. 
 
 Oddly enough, the crowning dish of the repast, 
 is a huge basin of plain boiled rice. It is said 
 
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 that this prevents any evil effects from excess 
 either of eating or drinking — sobers you in fact, 
 and sends you away from table with clear 
 intellects. 
 
 To a dinner such as the one just described, 
 ladies would, naturally, not be invited in any 
 country, but in China, even when their festivities 
 are of a more private nature, men and women 
 never eat together. Husbands and wives, with 
 their families may do so ; but when any guests 
 are invited to dinner, the ladies dine in one room, 
 and the gentlemen in another. Our neighbours, 
 the L.s, though always ready to talk and laugh 
 to any extent with their European brother 
 Christians, are obliged to disappear the moment 
 any Chinaman comes to call, and even though 
 they do so, I fancy their compatriots look rather 
 askance at them in consequence of their having 
 to a great extent adopted the habits of western 
 nations. 
 
 LETTER XXVIII. 
 
 ■},oth April 1 87-. 
 
 We have for some time been in a most be- 
 nighted state as regards service in the church. 
 
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 It was given up in consequence of the with- 
 drawal of the Government grant having so 
 materially reduced the income of the consular 
 chaplain ; he has returned to England, and no 
 one has yet been found to take his place. The 
 cessation of all church-going evidently excited 
 great surprise in the mind of our grave domestic, 
 who at last asked me in what I thought was rather 
 a tone of reprimand, " Missisy, what for that 
 church man not come all same as before time ? " 
 I hope my explanation satisfied him that it was 
 not caused by any want of appreciating the ordi- 
 nances of our religion ; but his anxiety on 
 account of our spiritual destitution will now be 
 relieved, as to-day the church was reopened, 
 owing to the kindness of the American mission- 
 aries, who have promised to send one of their 
 number every Sunday as long as their other 
 duties will admit of their doing so. During this 
 clerical famine we have occasionally gone for 
 service on Sunday on board the English man-of- 
 war lying in the harbour. We have also been 
 indebted to her hospitable commander for a good 
 deal of secular amusement on other days — 
 theatricals acted by the crew, &c. 
 
 May Afth. — Two excitements have occurred in 
 one day — a most unusual event in our quiet life. 
 
Letters from China. 125 
 
 Firstly, we heard that a watch, exactly answering 
 the description of the one which was carried off 
 with our other property nearly a year ago, had 
 been offered for sale at Foo-Chow. Fortunately 
 it was taken to be valued at a shop where the 
 theft was known, and the proprietor sensibly 
 retained it for identification. H. of course went 
 off at once to Foo-Chow, and came home in 
 triumph with his long-lost chronometer. 
 
 Excitement the second was not of such a 
 satisfactory nature, being no less a catastrophe 
 than our finding the house .on fire. A petroleum 
 lamp, left burning in the room of our neighbour 
 Mr C, had been upset either by the little dog, a 
 sudden gust of wind, or by some other mysterious 
 agency. About eleven o'clock H. heard a noise, 
 and, looking out, saw the reflection of the light 
 in t)ie verandah, and on going into the room 
 found the blazing oil running over the table and 
 floor. With some difficulty the flames were 
 extinguished, but the room would, in a few 
 minutes longer, have been hopelessly on fire had 
 we retired to rest at our usually early hour, 
 which a dinner party had prevented our doing. 
 
 \Zth May. — The arrival of English tools has 
 given a fresh impetus to our fnania for gardening. 
 Owing to the heat, it can, however, only be 
 
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 indulged in at a very early hour in the morning, 
 or during the interval, which in these latitudes is 
 very short, between sunset and darkness. It is 
 satisfactory to find, after a year's experience, that 
 with a little care one can obtain an almost con- 
 stant supply of flowers ; and it is astonishing how 
 well those of every climate seem to grow and 
 flourish, from the gardenia and pomegranate to 
 the mignonette, wallflower, and sweet-pea of our 
 English gardens. 1 fear the hosts of insects that 
 are invading us foretell a very hot season. 
 Almost everything in the garden has been half 
 devoured by a beautiful little beetle, which would 
 be better employed in adorning the artificial 
 fl6wers sold in England, than in destroying my 
 most cherished plants here ; but I hope that the 
 gardener's indefatigable warfare against them, 
 carried on every night by torchlight, may now 
 have put an end to their raids. The cockroaches 
 in the house, and still worse in the ship, are 
 terrible to behold : the creatures are so large, 
 run like racers and fly like birds, so there is no 
 getting rid of them. As soon as some are 
 trapped, others appear on the scene. Their 
 peculiar weakness is for kid, and they destroy 
 one's best and neatest boots in a manner which 
 makes them expensive,, as well as disagreeable. 
 
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 jfune I \th. — Mr O. who lunched with us to-day, 
 told me some horrible instances of the cruel pun- 
 ishments practiced by the Chinese. Last autumn 
 a man stole some part of a lady's head-dress. 
 Being discovered, he was pursued, and probably 
 knowing the fate that awaited him were he taken, 
 he tried to put an end to himself, in which, how- 
 ever, he failed and was captured. His punishment 
 for this depredation, was being exposed on the 
 bridge at Foo-Chow in a cage, and without food 
 till he died. Such is the inhuman disposition 
 of the populace, that even women with infants in 
 their arms stood gloating their eyes on the suffer- 
 ings of the wretched victim. I remember hearing 
 something about it at the time, but did not know 
 for what a comparatively small oifence this fear- 
 ful death had been awarded. The theft had pro- 
 bably been committed on rich people who could 
 afford to pay the authorities well for punishing the 
 offender severely, everything being carried on by 
 " bribery and corruption " from the highest to the 
 lowest. If a criminal has money, he can always 
 lessen his punishment or escape it altogether, by a 
 present to the authorities, and a very common 
 form of, what is called here "squeeze," is that 
 when any friends go to see a prisoner, the latter 
 is tortured in their sight in order to induce them to 
 
128 Letters from China. 
 
 give money to stop it. A still more extraordinary- 
 method of extortion is sometimes resorted to, should 
 any kind person take care of a sick neighbour, and 
 the latter dies ; the good Samaritan who has be- 
 friended him, will be attacked, robbed, and pos- 
 sibly murdered, unless he pay down a good round 
 sum to the relations of the deceased, who choose 
 to consider that he has murdered him. 
 
 LETTER XXIX. 
 
 loth July 187- 
 
 Never did letters arrive more opportunely for 
 cheering purposes than yours did last night, when 
 at nine o'clock, after having seen the departure of 
 a very tired husband to go four miles to his ship 
 against a strong tide, I had retired to endeavour to 
 bury my woes in sleep, when most unexpectedly 
 the English letters and newspapers were handed 
 into my room. To bed I still went in order to 
 place the mosquito curtains between me and my 
 enemies, but my letters went with me, so the 
 comfort of the arrangement was complete, and a 
 few hours were much enlivened by air the home 
 news. 
 
 The cause of our present mental disturbance is 
 that the training-ship is at last completed, and has 
 
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 been moved down far below the harbour prepara- 
 tory to sailing the first favourable day. I shall be 
 almost glad when she is fairly off. With so small 
 a staff of European assistants the work of prepara- 
 tion has been very trying — beginning at 4.30 in 
 the morning, and with two hours' cessation in the 
 middle of the day, ending only at 7.30 p.m. My 
 hope, therefore, that the sea breezes may be bene- 
 ficial to H.'s health, after so much exposure to the 
 heat of the sun, reconciles me, in some measure, 
 to our present fate. 
 
 July ^ist. — H. has sailed. I went with him 
 yesterday, and returned this morning in the 
 steamer which towed the " Kien-Wei" to an 
 island outside the river, where she will remain 
 three or four days, and then sail for the North. 
 She has a crew of 1 30, of whom only the gunner 
 and boatswain are English, 30 are cadets, and the 
 remainder are men collected from the Sanpans and 
 Junks in the river. Not a dozen of them have 
 ever been in an English-rigged ship before. The 
 appearance of such a motley-looking crew, makes 
 one tremble to think what the result would be, 
 were bad weather to come on. My trust must 
 indeed be placed in " The eternal Lord God who 
 ruleth the raging of the sea." 
 
 August \th. — A few lines from H. Much 
 
130 Letters from China. 
 
 tossing about going on, while lying at anchor for 
 the last three days at Matsou, and much misery 
 among the poor cadets, many of whom have been 
 very sick, and very sorry for themselves in con- 
 sequence. He is very anxious about the result 
 of this first cruise, some of his cadets not being 
 at all adapted, either mentally or physically, for a 
 sea life, and already one of them has been de- 
 clared guilty of feigning ill health, as a plea for 
 staying at home. The perseverance of the youth, 
 however, is worthy of a better cause, for directly 
 the ship got outside the harbour, and away from 
 medical supervision, he so evidently made up his 
 mind " to lie down and die " that the Chinese 
 Monitor of the school became alarmed, and en- 
 treated that he .might be sent on shore in the 
 pilot-boat, at which the authorities are very 
 angry, and intend- charging the expense of his 
 being landed, between the home-sick youth and 
 his too compassionate superior. A good many 
 of the lads who have been, as it were, draughted 
 into the Training Ship, though glad to profit by 
 the education afforded them by the English 
 Naval School on shore, are taken from a class 
 who look on any kind of physical exertion as a 
 degradation. With regard to these, therefore, H. 
 finds himself in a somewhat similar position to 
 
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 the children of Israel, when they were told to 
 make bricks without straw ! 
 
 LETTER XXX. 
 
 Foo-Chow, August \s^h. 
 
 I am now staying with Mr and Mrs G., — they 
 having kindly come to the Arsenal to escort 
 me here last Wednesday. 
 
 The unusually cool weather and charming 
 breeze from the N.E. ended a few days ago in a 
 Typhoon. We were at the time at a neighbour's 
 house which stands in a more exposed situation 
 than this. Doors and windows crashed in all 
 directions, and the poor trees seemed about to be 
 torn up by the roots ; a bit of glass from a window 
 was driven nearly an inch into the rosewood case 
 of the piano, which will give you some idea of the 
 force of the wind, and yet I am told we only 
 experienced the edge of the storm here. When 
 the first tremendous gust came, one's breath 
 seemed absolutely to be blown away, for truly it 
 was a violent seasoning to the idea of a husband 
 afloat on the wild waves. 
 
 It was vain to think of returning home in our 
 chairs, as they would at once have been ship- 
 wrecked, so when the storm lulled we abandoned 
 
132 Letters from China. 
 
 them and our hats — made fast our chignons, by 
 tying a handkerchief firmly over our heads, and 
 succeeded, with some male assistance, in getting 
 safely back. 
 
 LETTER XXXI. 
 
 Arsenal, ^th September, 187- 
 A letter from H. dated Chefoo, and reporting 
 " all well !" 
 
 Now the good news has come, and we know 
 the ship is safe, I find there have been all manner 
 of evil rumours afloat regarding her — one story 
 proceeding so far as to say that she had been 
 seen " bottom upwards. " I have much reason to 
 be grateful not only to our European neighbours, 
 who have so carefully guarded my ears from 
 reports which would have made me so unhappy, 
 but also to the gentle consideration of my Chinese 
 servants. It seems many of the wives of the 
 crew had been to the house trying to see me 
 about these reports, but one only escaped the 
 vigilant watch kept over my peace of mind by my 
 excellent " Boy " and " Amah. " She, poor 
 woman, appeared suddenly in my room one ' 
 morning while I was dressing, having effected 
 her entrance by creeping under the half door. 
 
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 She was in great distress, for she said, " one man 
 have talkee me that ship go down, vny no can takee 
 chow-chow, my too muchee sick. " Her anxiety thus 
 simply expressed was very touching. I told her 
 how improbable it was that "any man" could 
 know such bad news, and it yet remain unknown 
 to the authorities of the Arsenal, which assurance 
 accompanied by the sympathy / so well could 
 give, seemed to console her, especially as I invited 
 her to pay me another visit after the next steamer 
 from the north came in, that she might hear what 
 intelligence it brought, so now my friend and I 
 can rejoice together. 
 
 You seem surprised at my having felt no alarm 
 at the prospect of being left alone in this strange 
 land : but the traits of character I have just given 
 will show you that the " heathen Chinee " is capable 
 of strong human affection, as well as much kindly 
 feeling, and I have every reason to believe that 
 the latter is the prevailing sentiment in my small 
 household. Therefore with the faithful " Scuttle " 
 to bark at the approach of any stranger — a 
 " ladder of ropes " by which to escape if the house 
 takes fire — a large bell with which to summon 
 friends to the rescue in case of need, no safer 
 abode than this could be desired. 
 
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 LETTER XXXII. 
 
 24^/4 October 187- 
 
 Three long anxious months had passed when 
 on Sunday last about 4 p.m., various "chits" 
 arrived to say the training ship was in sight. 
 While thoughtful " Boy " armed himself with my 
 opera glasses, I put on my hat and sped to the top 
 of the hill, reaching my point of observation just in 
 time to see the " Kien Wei " coming up the river 
 under full sail. In a few minutes she closed her 
 wings instantaneously as if by magic — anchored 
 — swung round — a smart, well dressed crew 
 scampered up her rigging — sails were furled — 
 boats hoisted out — yards squared — all was done 
 In nearly as little time as I take to write it. Then 
 she l6oked as trim, orderly, and quiet, as if she 
 was an English man-of-war that had been lying 
 in port all day, except that she was surrounded 
 by swarms of sanpans containing the grand- 
 parents and parents — wives, sisters, and children 
 of her crew, shouting and gesticulating in a 
 manner that seems inherent in the Chinese, and 
 perfectly irrepressible in moments of excitement. 
 
 It was not till some hours later that her ,com- 
 mander could come on shore, but you can imagine 
 what a joyous meeting then took place. One 
 
Letters from China. 135 
 
 felt deeply thankful not only that amid all the 
 storms of this unusually tempestuous autumn H. 
 had been so favoured in weather, but that the 
 voyage had been, in other respects, quite success- 
 ful. 
 
 LETTER XXXIII. 
 
 November Zth, 187- 
 
 We were present yesterday at a very curious 
 scene — the thanksgiving service held by the crew 
 of the training ship, in honour of her safe return. 
 
 The invitation was sent us on a large sheet of 
 bright red paper, and H. said it was most amusing 
 to see how pleased the men were when they 
 heard we should be present, and how eager to 
 have everything " all proper, " which in their 
 acceptation of the expression, means a liberal 
 supply of "chow-chow." He had to explain to 
 them that if " Missisy" went their acting must 
 really be all proper, and of course there was some 
 little difficulty in defining our meaning of the 
 word. The result proved that he had been suc- 
 cessful, and that they had attended to his behest, 
 for Chinese plays are, generally speaking, too 
 coarse for female eyes. 
 
 That theatricals, should be mingled with acts 
 
136 Letters from China. 
 
 of worship seems extraordinary, yet so it is, so 
 much so, that in their temples an altar occupies 
 one side, and a stage the other. 
 
 On our arrival we were ushered upstairs into 
 a small gallery, part of which had been railed off 
 to form a private box. In it were set chairs, a 
 table covered with a nice white cloth, and not- 
 withstanding H. having assured them we should 
 require nothing either to eat or drink, they had pro- 
 vided beer, wine, lemonade, and all kinds of 
 beverages, for our refreshment, not to mention an 
 ample supply of cigars for " Captain." 
 
 By the time we ' arrived, what we should con- 
 sider the religious part of the ceremony was over, 
 it having begun at eight in the morning. We 
 had ndt however missed much, as all " chin-chin 
 josses " are much the same, and consist principally 
 in burning quantities of mock money and joss 
 sticks, the latter, made of sandal wood, created a 
 pleasant perfume in the temple. They were at 
 the feeding part of the ceremony when we made 
 our appearance, and that, I have already told you, 
 holds a very important' place on such occasions. 
 Most astonishing it was to see the remarkable 
 quantities of rice, fish,' and fowl, shovelled into 
 their mouths with chopsticks, and the amazing 
 rapidity with which it was done. 
 
Letters from China. 137 
 
 A sufficient amount of " Chow-Chow " having 
 been consumed, the stage was soon cleared for 
 their theatricals, in which all the female parts and 
 most of the others were taken by boys. (N.B. 
 — Women n ever act in Chjna). 
 
 We had invited the Mandarin of the ship, and 
 one of the cadets to come and interpret, but in spite 
 of their endeavours to do so, I must acknowledge 
 it was a little difficult to follow out the plot. The 
 idea, I believe was, that the pig, monkey and 
 other animals, had lost their masters, and accused 
 the priest of stealing them, — a frightful want of 
 confidence in the honesty of their ecclesiastics ! 
 Then they had a fight with the fairies, who first 
 turned them into birds, then into fish. Some of 
 the dresses were really very pretty — others 
 charmingly grotesque, especially the masks of 
 the pig, and a large bird which always carried off 
 the fairies' clothes in his huge beak when they went 
 to bathe. H. says it was a very fair specimen 
 of Chinese acting, which is almost always carried 
 on in pantomime. The actofs performed their 
 toilette at the back of the stage, the mask dresses 
 being put on over their ordinary clothes, and 
 when one set of performers had finished their 
 part, they coolly doffed their upper garments, 
 put them on their head, and quietly conveyed 
 
138 Letters from China. 
 
 them away before the spectators, by which you 
 will see that the scenic effect was not quite that 
 of Drury Lane ! 
 
 We remained about an hour and a half, and 
 were much pressed to stay longer, for the ''sing 
 song" was to go on all day, but we had seen 
 enough, and our presence was no doubt some little 
 gdne to our hosts. 
 
 Though I was the only woman present, and 
 there were many people besides those connected 
 with the ship, there was not an attempt to press 
 on us, or any symptom of disrespect by word or 
 look. , The expression on all the faces was that 
 of good humour and satisfaction at our being 
 there, mixed no doubt with a little wonder at the 
 presence of a European woman on such an occa- 
 jsion. I made the same remark when some time 
 ago we visited the handsome Canton Joss House 
 at Foo-Chow, while one of their festivals was 
 going on. The crowd opened -to let us pass, and 
 seemed most politely careful to avoid incommod- 
 ing us in any way. 
 
 LETTER XXXIV. 
 
 May 187- 
 
 Another winter and spring have gone by in 
 much the same way as the previous ones — the 
 
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 Chinese have had their festivals, and various 
 little amusements have taken place among the 
 European community both here and at Foo- 
 Chow ; but .there has been nothing very novel 
 to relate. Towards the end of the year H. met 
 with a serious accident, in falling and dislocating 
 his shoulder. It remained in a very unsatisfac- 
 tory state for some time, but is now all right 
 again. He has also suffered a good deal from that 
 most wretched malady, ague, but notwithstanding 
 both that and the arm, has been busy as usual. 
 
 We do not have a great deal of each other's 
 society except when he comes on shore from 
 Saturday till Monday, or still more frequently, 
 when I spend those days on board our Marine 
 Residence. H. was rather pleased the other day 
 with the sharpness of one of his midshipmen, 
 when he asked him whether there was any differ- 
 ence in the amount of work done on board the 
 Chinese gunboats on Sunday. He answered 
 that there was not. H. remarked he did not see 
 any signs of much being done on that day. " Oh, 
 Sir, they are all Sundays on board the Chinese 
 gunboats." " I suppose," says H., " you would like 
 that to be the case here also." " Not at all, Sir, J 
 don't like too many Sundays ; one in the week is 
 quite enough." 
 
140 Letters from China. 
 
 One day, when he called to another of them to 
 know what was going on at one of the guns, 
 They're dreaming, Sir," was the sharp reply. 
 
 I found H.'s cabin, with its capital warm stove, 
 much the snuggest place in winter, when we had 
 some unusually cold weather. Owing to the 
 latter, there was very nearly a blank made in our 
 domestic circle, for one morning on coming down 
 to breakfast, I found the eldest monkey stiff and 
 cold. All that day she lay wrapped up in a shawl 
 near the fire, showing hardly any signs of life, 
 except when from time to time I put a teaspoon- 
 ful of brandy and water down her throat, which 
 seemed to have a reviving influence for a few 
 seconds. It was not till late in the evening tha,t 
 she stretched out first one leg, and then another, 
 and ultimatelycrept feebly forth from her covering. 
 The following day she spent sitting by the fire- 
 side, , with her head between her hands and a 
 pained expression in her philosophical old face, 
 betokening no doubt a severe headache as the 
 result of the previous day's potations, but in the 
 end she did credit to my treatment by getting 
 quite well. 
 
 Another expedition to some races took place a 
 month or two ago, when I was staying at Foo- 
 Chow, which gave me an opportunity of seeing 
 
Letters from China. 141 
 
 the native city, through whose curious, narrow 
 streets we were obliged to pass en route to the 
 race-course. We went, a cavalcade of nine chairs, 
 one after the other, the effect of which was most 
 amusing, and the way the coolies shout out to 
 clear the way as they go through the crowded 
 streets, reminded one of the gondoliers at Venice, 
 before they shoot round the corners of their nar- 
 row canals. In some places there really was hardly 
 room for two chairs to pass, as besides the streets 
 being narrow, they are rendered still more so by 
 the shopkeepers having their goods displayed on 
 boards outside their stores. The latter have no 
 glass windows, and at night are closed by boards 
 being put up ; but during the day are entirely open 
 to the street, so in bad weather must be much ex- 
 posed to the wind and rain. The whole merchan- 
 dise of the city, and everything else, being carried 
 by coolies, the bustle, noise, and crowd of so many 
 human beings hurrying to and fro, was a curious 
 scene, and as it was quite dark by the time we re- 
 turned, the shops lighted up with gaily coloured 
 lanterns added to the effect. My active bearers 
 shot a-head so far of the others, that I several times 
 found myself quite out of sight of the rest of the 
 party, which, being in an open chair might have 
 been trying to my nerves, had I not been too much 
 
142 Letters from China. 
 
 occupied with the novelty of all around me, to re- 
 member my soHtary position. 
 
 June 'jth. — The even tenour of our life has 
 been enHvened lately by visits from several old 
 friends, and two events of a more public character. 
 First, came the English Admiral and suite, but he 
 only remained at the anchorage for a day or two. 
 Then the whole new French Legation arrived on 
 their way to Pekin, and spent some days with the 
 Director. Of course there were various enter- 
 tainments on the occasion, and the launch of a 
 ship, when every one appeared in full uniform in 
 honour of the Minister Plenipotentiary, also a 
 Promenade en chaises by all the party, through the 
 workshops of the Arsenal ; but it has rained in a 
 most perverse manner nearly all the time they 
 were here, so I fear Mon. et Madame de G. 
 must have carried away a very unfavorable im- 
 - pression of this beautiful climate. 
 
 Even the day of their arrival was wet, and as 
 the Guard of Honour appointed to meet them 
 was, as usual, behind time, a perfect Stampede of 
 the Chinese army, such as I have formerly de- 
 scribed, took place past our windows. 
 
 That excitable nation were much " exercised " 
 in their mmd two days ago, when a partial eclipse 
 of the sun took place. Their idea, I believe, is 
 
Letters front China. 143 
 
 that the moon wishes to eat up the sun. As soon, 
 therefore, as it begins to pass over the latter, they 
 commence making an uproar on gongs and every 
 species of noisy instrument, which continues till 
 the eclipse is over, when they consider they have 
 frightened the moon away. 
 
 ■i)Oth July. — The note of preparation has 
 sounded for our return home ; and during the 
 last fortnight H. has been very busy winding up 
 his affairs on board the ship. 
 
 There was a most exciting scene the day he 
 bid adieu to her, when all on board — some of the 
 crew in tears — came crowding round him to 
 testify their sorrow at his departure. 
 
 Now that is over, our own domestic packing 
 commences, which is not a pleasant prospect 
 with the thermometer between 90° and 100° in 
 the shade. 
 
 When it is accomplished we shall adjourn to 
 Foo-Chow, to see many kind friends there, and I 
 hope soon the weather may become cool enough 
 for us to see also something of the river scenery, 
 which H. has hitherto been too much occupied 
 for us to do. 
 
 Our numerous family of pets, consisting of two 
 monkeys, two birds, two cats, and two dogs — 
 
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 have all been promised, what I trust may prove 
 happy homes, with the exception of the two last, 
 who are to accompany us for the present. 
 
 LETTER XXXV. 
 
 House Boat on River Min, 
 2ist Sept. 1 87-. 
 
 The patience of two years and a half is now 
 being rewarded, and we have at last started on 
 the trip up the river, to which I have so long 
 looked forward. I feared we should have left 
 this without accomplishing it, for H. has been 
 very unwell, and latterly has been confined to 
 the house with inflammation in the eyes ; the 
 weather also continued so hot, we could not have 
 enjoyed ourselves. A week ^ago, however, the 
 weather became cool, and the husband well; so 
 on Monday we started, stopped at the Arsenal 
 to pick up a friend whom we had invited to 
 accompany us, and all this week have been 
 floating about, first up one branch of the river 
 and then up the other. How you would enjoy 
 such a life as ours has been during these lovely 
 days !' We are living on board a large and most 
 comfortably fitted-up house-boat, with books, 
 writing, and all our occupations with us for 
 
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 amusement during the heat of the day, and go 
 out in the morning and evening to walk, shoot, 
 &c. H. has the loan of a canoe, in. which he 
 disports himself while his stronger companions 
 walk. The peasants have been, as a general 
 rule, very quiet and civil, though probably our 
 friends in England, with the horrors of Tien-tsin 
 so recently on their minds, would hardly have 
 felt happy had they seen us a few mornings ago 
 as we walked through a village followed by 
 hundreds of the inhabitants. The name, too, they 
 applied to us of Fanqui {anglice " foreign devil ") 
 will not sound to you very reassuring! This- 
 pretty soubriquet, with, which foreign visitors are 
 often assailed, seems to be as indigenous in the 
 mouth of the Chinese youth as is the ' vulgar 
 rhyme beginning " Lady Pad " in that of the 
 juvenile mining population of Scotland, nor 
 does it appear to have any more dangerous , 
 meaning. 
 
 I must now return to the day on which we 
 started, and give you a more detailed account of 
 our voyage, beginning with the Yllng-foo branch 
 of the river. 
 
 We went on board the house-boat at 12 p.m. 
 on Monday night, and on Tuesday morning 
 awoke to find ourselves at the anchorage. 
 
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 All that day it literally poured, so that the 
 mountains were hardly visible through the mist 
 and rain, which completely prevented our being 
 , aware that we were passing miles of orange 
 groves on both sides of the river. We saw the 
 remains of a stone bridge, which must at one 
 time have united the island of Nantai with the 
 mainland, a distance of about a mile ; then passed 
 a number of house-boats at a place called Pee- 
 kow, where there is tolerably good pheasant 
 shooting in winter, and where also there is a 
 sulphur spring to which invalids are frequently 
 ordered for rheumatism. About five o'clock we 
 arrived at the highest point to which house-boats 
 can go, on account of the shallows and rapidity 
 of the stream, and anchored for the night. In 
 the evening the rain stopped ; our chairs were 
 hoisted on to, the roof of our house, and we long 
 sat gazing at the grotesquely-shaped hills, which 
 looked dark and mysterious against the sky ; 
 while Mr S. illuminated them and the little bay 
 they surrounded, by sending off numerous crackers 
 and rockets. 
 
 Wednesday morning was lovely, so we were 
 up betimes and started immediately after break- 
 fast in one of the long, flat-bottomed, native boats 
 — were tracked and pulled up the rapids about 
 
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 two miles, then landed and proceeded on foot and 
 in chairs. 
 
 Discovering that no coolies had been brought 
 to carry " chow-chow," (which term for food I 
 hope you now all understand), a good deal of 
 abuse was expended on the Boy for this careless 
 omission. The small sum of twenty cents soon, 
 however, procured bearers for our Tiffin, so then off 
 we went, the villagers all turning out to inspect 
 us, and I, as usual, monopolising most of their 
 attention, a European woman being a sight only 
 occasionally met with in such remote districts. 
 My watch chain, and trinkets, excited rather 
 more admiration than was quite agreeable, so I 
 thought at first, it would have been more prudent 
 to have left them at home. It did not appear, 
 however, that the anxiety to touch and be allowed 
 to examine them arose from any evil intent, but 
 ,from simple curiosity. 
 
 I have previously mentioned the fearful odours 
 that prevail in China, rivalling even Cologne ! 
 but never could olfactory nerves be put to a 
 severer test than ours were on the present occa- 
 sion. The cornbined smells of all the dirtiest 
 villages in Scotland would hardly bear comparison 
 with that which assailed us at the commencement 
 of our walk. That trial being overcome, we pro- 
 
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 ceeded on our way for about three or four miles, 
 through well-cultivated fields of vegetables, rice, 
 and sugar-cane — scrambled up a tolerably stepp 
 hill and found ourselves at the monastery of Yling- 
 foo.. In itself the monastery is nothing, being a 
 mere wooden erection, containing some rather 
 benevolent-looking brass images, which, from the 
 expression of their faces, must, I should say, 
 belong to a more amiable family of gods than 
 Chinese Josses in general ; but the situation it 
 occupies is most beautiful, the erection being 
 jammed in, as it were, to a large niche, formed 
 of gigantic rocks that look as if they might, in 
 some convulsion of nature, come down and crush 
 monastery, images, and everything else. 
 
 One of the greatest curiosities of the place is 
 the manner in which it is supplied with water 
 from a spring on the top of the mountain, 
 from which it trickles down a bamboo rope to the 
 monastery. 
 
 The vegetation all the way up is beautiful. 
 Trees, to many of which my limited botanical 
 knowledge can give no name, azaleas, a kind of 
 single gardenia, orange and crimson liliums, 
 gloxinias, ferns without end — these and many 
 other beautiful plants, were what we saw around 
 us growing like weeds. 
 
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 The above list must not give you the idea that 
 the hills in China are covered with specimen plants 
 of the flowers I mention ! On the contrary, many 
 of them in their uncultivated state really are much 
 more like weeds, than near relations to the 
 pampered, aristocratic looking denizens of our 
 stoves and greenhouses. Ferns, of course, which 
 grow here in the wildest luxuriance, are one of the 
 exceptions to this remark. 
 
 Altogether, we were much pleased with the 
 scenery of Yting-foo, which, in spite of having 
 heard it so highly lauded, did not disappoint 
 us. 
 
 But now it is time for tiffin, for which we were 
 all quite ready, after our unwonted exertions. 
 That being accomplished, and also on the part of 
 some of the party, the inevitable pipe and post- 
 tiffin siesta, we commenced the descent, and got 
 back to the boat about four o'clock. 
 
 We then took advantage of the ebbing tide to 
 drop down the river, the scenery of which had 
 only been visible through the mist on the 
 previous day. It certainly is very lovely with 
 its deep fringe of graceful bamboos on each side, 
 and one hill rising above another in varied form, 
 some of them very fantastic, and all clothed to 
 the summit with trees and beautifully green 
 
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 underwood. I thought with envy of the sketch- 
 ing talents possessed by several of our relations, 
 when each turn of the river brought us in sight 
 of some new and charming view. 
 
 Thursday morning we found ourselves, on 
 awaking, at Yung-Kee, waiting the flood tide to 
 take us up the other and larger branch of the 
 river. 
 
 Various excitements had taken place during 
 the night, one of which had been caused by the 
 arrival of a donation from a kind friend, to the 
 Commissariat department. As no incident, how- 
 ever trivial, can happen, without a Chinaman 
 taking advantage of it to make as much noise as 
 possible, no wonder the advent of a good fat 
 goose, and various other delicacies, was hailed in 
 a manner that greatly disturbed the peace of our 
 slumbers. 
 
 Having taken, in other supplies sent across the 
 island from Foo-Chow to meet us, we sailed 
 from Yung-Kee about eleven o'clock. 
 
 The scenery was rather tame for the first hour 
 or two — the banks generally low, with hills in 
 the distance ; but a strong breeze carried us along 
 at a good pace, till we anchored at sunset near 
 a pretty village on the right bank, called Pah- 
 Sah, where there is a long, narrow creek, and a 
 
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 large jail surrounded by a high wall. We at 
 once proceeded on shore, Boy, coolies, and dogs 
 in attendance. Mr S. and I walked, while H. 
 canoed up the pretty creek, till we came to a 
 stone bridge, over which some people and cattle 
 were passing. The architecture of the bridge, 
 and the whole scene, reminded us vividly of 
 that depicted on the old-fashioned willow china 
 which was once so familiar to our youthful 
 eyes. 
 
 The long-tailed peasants were much amused 
 by the canoe, which H. took close in-shore that 
 they might examine it thoroughly. They were 
 evidently greatly pleased by his doing so, and 
 one man displayed what I suppose he considered 
 his superior knowledge, by remarking when he 
 saw it going very fast, that it went " all same 
 steamer." , 
 
 Next morning we were up at six, and had a 
 charming walk. Mr S. took his gun, but saw 
 little to shoot, except a golden Oriole, which he 
 tried to kill, but failed signally in depriving it of 
 anything but a few of its feathers, which were 
 thus brought back as sole trophies of our 
 morning's expedition. 
 
 The country is highly cultivated, and the in- 
 ihabitants a very quiet-looking race, so that our 
 
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 precaution qf taking the Boy and some coolies, 
 in case of accidents, was quite unnecessary. 
 
 The trees are principally olive ; but not the 
 same kind as those seen in Italy, the form of the 
 tree, and also its foliage being quite different. 
 A small fruit from which oil is made, sugar-canes, 
 sweet potatoes, and rice, seem to be the principal 
 productions of the soil. 
 
 On our return to the boat, her bow was turned 
 down the river, for the fair wind had brought us 
 so far the previous day, we decided that it would 
 not be prudent to proceed farther, as the day of 
 our departure from Foo-Chow was drawing so near. 
 
 Shortly after sailing we got aground, and could 
 not move for two hours, till the rising tide came to 
 our rescue. 
 
 In the afternoon we again anchored and went 
 on shore, accompanied by the dogs and usual 
 escort of coolies. We found the trees had con- 
 cealed a village of considerable^ size, so that we 
 had landed in the middle of the large population 
 to which I alluded in fhe beginning of my letter. 
 Many of the younger members of the community 
 invited themselves to join our walk, and seemed 
 to enjoy it as much as we did ourselves, especially 
 when H. and Mr S. shot some pigeons and other 
 birds. 
 
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 It was not, however, quite pleasant to find, on 
 our return through the village, how greatly our 
 self-appointed escort had increased, and that it 
 continued getting more numerous every minute. 
 A young Chinaman threw a bit of mud at me, not 
 thinking he would be seen, but on turning round 
 to his companions with a self-satisfied grin, he 
 was surprised to find H. facing him, and to receive 
 a smart tap on the back with the barrel of his gun. 
 
 Though I believe nothing is more pleasing to the 
 national vanity of the Chinese than to think they 
 have insulted a foreigner without being discovered, 
 yet it is questionable whether the manners of our 
 own people would be superior to theirs, were a 
 Chinese woman suddenly to appear walking quietly 
 through one of our country villages, as I did 
 through Hai-wan-chee. 
 
 In spite, however, of philosophising on the sub- 
 ject now, none of us seemed at the time to regret 
 being near our boat when the incident of the 
 mud took place, as it has often been from such 
 trifling beginnings that disturbances have arisen. 
 
 With the exception of the above rather dis- 
 agreeable episode, our afternoon's excursion was 
 one of the pleasantest we had. The general 
 aspect of the country was so well cultivated and 
 homelike, the foliage of the banian trees and olives 
 
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 so luxuriant, and, last not least, it was such a 
 pleasure to walk onqe more on a good broad path- 
 way. These paths with grass on each side which 
 looked most inviting for a canter, are made on the 
 top of high embankments which divide each field, 
 and are, we suppose, raised for the purpose of 
 preventing all the fields being flooded at one 
 time. 
 
 During our walk I collected a bunch of most 
 beautiful mauve flowers, a variety, I think, of the 
 Hibiscus. 
 
 On returning to the House Boat, we crossed 
 the river and anchered at Wong-Tong, where 
 the two branches of the Min join. 
 
 In the morning we started at our usual early 
 hour with guns and dogs, — found the inhabitants 
 too busy collecting their olives and whampees to 
 pay much attention to our proceedings, and 
 returned to breakfast after a capital walk. We 
 at once weighed anchor for our return down the 
 river, and that evening had a farewell stroll, but 
 not alas ! through such a pretty country as we 
 had left behind. This fact added to regret at the 
 prospect of our pleasant expedition coming to an 
 end, had a rather depressing effect on the spirits 
 of the party, so we very soon retired to rest, after 
 giving orders to the boatman to sail as early in the 
 
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 morning as light and tide would permit. Accord- 
 ingly at 4 A.M. we_ were again under weigh, but the 
 attempt to take a short cut ended as it ever does, 
 and at 6 we found ourselves on a sand-bank, 
 where we were soon left high and dry, without the 
 least prospect of getting off for hours. This did 
 not seem a lively way of spending the day, so 
 after breakfast I was carried in my chair, and the 
 gentlemen walked across the sand to where Mr 
 S.'s House-Boat lay, and in it we proceeded to 
 the Arsenal — had tiffin with our former semi- 
 detached neighbour, * and then proceeded to pay 
 several farewell visits. Meantime our stranded 
 vessel was floated off its resting-place by the 
 rising tide, and arrived in time for us to set sail 
 again in the evening. 
 
 We got back to Foo-Chow in the middle of the 
 night — at what hour I know not, as we were 
 asleep and did not come on shore till eight in 
 the morning. 
 
 Thus ended our very charming excursion on 
 the river Min, the account of which I am finish- 
 ing on shore, not having had much time for writ- 
 ing during the latter part of it. 
 
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 LETTER XXXVI. 
 
 On Board the " Ningpo " Steamer, 
 October 3^. 
 
 We are now fairly adrift on the world, having 
 left pretty Foo-Chow and our kind friends there 
 this day week. 
 
 We have spent a few days at Shanghai, and 
 are now on our way to Ningpo, which H. knows 
 well, having been stationed there for some time, 
 twelve years ago. 
 
 Anything more luxurious than this steamer, 
 can hardly be imagined of one of its genus, and 
 it gives me a high appreciation of American ideas 
 of comfort. At this moment We are sitting in 
 a most charming saloon on deck, to which not a 
 soup9on of the ordinary odours of steamers can 
 penetrate, and the cabins are large and airy, with 
 only one berth in each, and the additional luxury 
 of a bath-room attached to mine. I should be 
 well pleased were I so fortunate as to have the 
 same accommodation for some of the longer 
 voyages we have in prospect. This is only a 
 short one ; we sailed at five this afternoon and 
 expect to reach our destination in the morning. 
 
 I must now however go back to our departure 
 from Foo-Chow, taking up the thread of discourse 
 
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 where' I concluded my last letter on our return 
 from our river expedition. We found that in our 
 absence a very agreeable partner of the house 
 where we were staying had arrived, and was going 
 on by the same steamer to Shanghai. The de- 
 parture of said steamer being delayed for a day, we 
 were aill enabled to remain for a large pic-nic party 
 to the Monastery, half-way up Kushan, and thus 
 our last day at Foo-Chow was a most lively one. 
 A perfect fleet of house-boats started early in 
 the morning to convey us to the foot of the 
 mountain, from which we proceeded in chairs to the 
 porch of the Jdss House, where we were received 
 by pretty Mrs G. and her -husband, the kind 
 ■givers of the feast. Feast it certainly was, and 
 not at all in the style of our home pic-nics, which 
 are perhaps more romantic than comfortable for 
 people of mature years. I do not think in fact, 
 that we should dare suggest to the British servant 
 the carrying materials for anything of the kind to 
 such a distance, we should probably be dismissed 
 on the spot ! But there we were, I shall not 
 venture to say how many feet above the level of 
 the river, and about fifty people sat down in the 
 court of a Buddhist Monastery to a regular dejeuner 
 A la fourchette, beginning with soup, and going 
 through all the ordinary courses of such a repast. 
 
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 Probably all the orders that had to be given to 
 Mr G.'s major-domo, consisted of the information 
 that a certain nunjber of guests were expected to 
 dine at Kushan, and that every procurable delicacy 
 should be provided for the occasion. 
 
 It always has been and ever will remain a 
 mystery to me, how these Chinamen contrive to 
 carry all kinds of things in an apparently very 
 promiscuous manner, without breaking them. 
 
 The day was altogether a very pleasant one, 
 with the exception of the disagreeable word " fare- 
 well," with which we had to conclude our part 
 of the proceedings. On that evening at 10 p.m. 
 we were again en route for the Anchorage, as the 
 steamer was to sail for Shanghai at daybreak. 
 Our last parting was with " Scuttle's " black son 
 " Kien," who was left behind — let us draw a veil 
 over that touching scene as the dispersion of our 
 pets is still a very tender subject. " Scuttle " of 
 course accompanies us, she being an inseparable 
 member of the family, who goes where we go, and 
 would die of surprise were any other course pro- 
 posed to her ! 
 
 The voyage to Shanghai was simply detestable, 
 not that the weather was bad, or the passage long, 
 for we accomplished it in a day shorter than 
 usual. But the sight and the smell of the opium- 
 
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 smoking Chinese, through whom we had to pass 
 to get to our cabins, made existence a burdeh. In 
 spite of being so good a sailor, it was hardly- 
 possible even for me, to preserve my character 
 under such very trying circumstances, and this 
 was only achieved by my remaining on deck. 
 We watched the process of opium smoking one 
 evening for a short time. It takes only about a 
 minute to smoke one pipe, which the attendant 
 refills, the smoke being allowed egress very slowly 
 through the nostrils. The wretched creatures 
 , who carry this habit to excess become very 
 emaciated, and their eyes acquire a most disagree- 
 ably vacant expression. 
 
 In bad weather, the coast we passed along 
 must be a very dangerous one. Besides the bold 
 rugged-looking mainland, there are myriads of 
 rocks and rocky islands jutting up from the sea 
 in all directions. 
 
 Fortunately, however, there are also some very 
 snug little harbours, where the captains of the 
 coasting- steamers can take refuge for the night in 
 a storm. 
 
 It will give you some idea of the size of Chinese 
 rivers when I tell you we were thirty miles up the 
 Yang-Tze-Kiang before I was aware that we 
 were not still at sea. It is about forty- two miles 
 
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 I 
 
 broad, much wider, as an American on board 
 
 acknowledged, than the Mississippi. At Woosung, 
 where a fleet of gaily painted war-junks was lying, 
 we turned into the smaller river on which 
 Shanghai is situated. Its banks are flat and un- 
 interesting, very unlike those of the beautiful 
 picturesque Min. 
 
 At three p.m. on Sunday we arrived at Shang- 
 hai, very thankful to be rid of all the bad smells 
 of the " Dragon." We took up our abode at the 
 Astor House, which is very comfortable, with a 
 tolerable table d'hote, and not as expensive as we 
 expected an Eastern hotel to be. The town is 
 very European in appearance, and it seemed quite 
 curious to see people driving about, and nice 
 wide streets free from all bouquet de Chine. 
 
 The wheel -barrows are most droll-looking 
 vehicles — " licensed to carry two passengers," but 
 they do not .seem to be much used by Europeans 
 except by gentlemen at night. The Chinese 
 ladies evidently like driving, as we have seen 
 several carriages full of them. 
 
 We dined at the house bf Messrs J. M. & Co., 
 one evening, and Mr J., having kindly offered H, 
 the use of his pony, another was got for me, and 
 we took a long ride into the country. The land 
 is divided into small farms, which have descended 
 
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 from father to son , for many generations. The 
 houses generally stand in the midst of a clump of 
 trees, and are surrounded by a few fields. Off 
 these they get four crops per annum, of which 
 wheat and cotton are the most valuable. Of 
 the latter there is a great deal grown round 
 Shanghai. 
 
 H. visited the arsenal, which is carried on, on a 
 different and less expensive system than that at 
 Foo-Chow, there being only seven or eight 
 Europeans in the whole establishment. He was 
 much pleased with a large frigate they have just 
 built, and much amused to find himself accosted 
 as her future commander. There seemed, in fact, 
 some difficulty in persuading the public that such 
 was not the case. The report no doubt arose 
 from the general belief, that the Chinese have some 
 difficulty in knowing what to do with their vessels 
 after they have built them, and will ultimately 
 require to have a European naval man to teach 
 them. 
 
 We had " tiffin " one day with an American, 
 who told me a story which is worthy of Dean 
 Ramsay's collection, and shows that old servants 
 in China have much the same tendency as the 
 old-fashioned Scotchman who, when his master 
 told him they must part, asked the latter " where 
 
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 he was going ! " When the wife of the gentle- 
 man I speak of returned to America, he endea- 
 voured to dismiss an ancient amah who had been 
 long in their service. She, with great surprise 
 answered, " What side my go ? have been with 
 massa fourteen years ; my too muchee old go 
 other family ; who wash massa handkerchiefs and 
 fix his clothes ? No, no ; my no can do ! " — 
 which argument seerped so conclusive, there she 
 remains, her master finding it utterly impossible 
 to get rid of her. 
 
 Oct. \th. — Arrived at Ningpo at seven a.m., 
 and were very kindly received by Mr W. H. 
 we'nt off" to see an old friend of his who had just 
 come from Hangchow, and arrange with him to 
 accompany us over the city in the afternoon— 
 which accordingly he did. 
 
 We went first to a very handsome Buddhist 
 temple, the stone pillars of which, said to have 
 come from Foo-Chow, are carved in the most 
 elaborate manner, and the other decorations are 
 also very striking. 
 
 It was built by the Foo-Chow people for theFok- 
 kien residents at Ningpo, and, like other Chinese 
 temples, is used as a theatre as well as a place of 
 worship. Along the galleries are boxes for the 
 better classes to occupy, when theatricals take place. 
 
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 As in all buildings of the kind, there are 
 several bridges over nothing, the Chinese having 
 some superstition about these being a safeguard 
 to preserve the balance of power between the 
 different elements, fire, air, &c. So strong is 
 this idea, that in all towns, one meets with bridges 
 in situations of no apparent use ; and on asking a 
 Chinamen why they are there, the certain answer 
 is " Fung-Sui," in which term every imaginable 
 and «mmaginable superstition is concentrated. 
 They have also other superstitions regarding the 
 orthodox corners of the house for the doors, 
 windows, &c., to be placed, each corner being 
 named after some animal, such as the white tiger 
 or red lion ; and these animals are supposed to 
 be offended should the doors or windows be put 
 in the wrong place. 
 
 From the Fokkien temple we went to an 
 ancient padoga, said to be a thousand years old, 
 and ascended to the top, followed by the enter- 
 prising " Scuttle," who was evidently much dis- 
 gusted to find that, after with difficulty scramb- 
 ling up the broken staircase, all she had to do 
 was to turn and with still greater struggles 
 scramble down again. The view from the top 
 did not reward us for our trouble, the distance 
 was so hazy. 
 
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 We then visited the Roman Catholic cathedral, 
 which would be a handsome church were it not 
 for the bad coloured glass in the windows ; after- 
 wards walked on the city walls, which were about 
 twenty feet broad. At a cottage door an old 
 woman was crying bitterly, and when we stopped 
 to ask what was wrong, an old man made his 
 appearance, and told us they had just lost a little 
 boy six years old, winding up the story of his 
 woes in true China fashion by asking for a 
 " ctimskaw." It struck me they were rather an 
 ancient^looking couple to have so young a child ; 
 however, one has heard similar melancholy tales 
 in other places besides the walls of Ningpo. 
 
 Our day's sight-seeing concluded by having tea 
 with the brother and sister-in-law of our agree- 
 able cicerone ; and on our return to Mr W.'s, we 
 found a large party assembled to meet us. 
 
 October ^th. — Went a tour of the wood-carvers 
 in the morning, and saw some beautiful speci- 
 mens, but very few for sale, and all that were so, 
 very expensive. One man, who showed us the de- 
 signs for the furniture to be sent to the Vienna 
 Exhibition, has monopolised all the best work- 
 men, and asks what prices he lik^s. Indeed it 
 is hardly possible to get anything from him with- 
 out ordering it, and then you cannot have it for 
 
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 months. At all the other shops, the carving looks 
 so rough and common, it is not worth buying. 
 
 We " tiffined " with Colonel C. who lives in a 
 very quaint abode — an old temple having been 
 turned into a barracks. Such is the practical 
 nature of the Chinese, they never like to waste 
 any space, and Mr M. says he does not know 
 how he will preserve his new church at Hangchow 
 from secular purposes, for it being an agricultural 
 district, the people are sure to think the church a 
 capital place for keeping their ploughs, &c. His 
 position there, cannot, I think, be altogether 
 comfortable, ^though having his heart in the 
 mission work, he does not seem anxious about 
 his own safety. He acknowledged, . however, 
 that the principal security for himself and family, 
 lies in the people not being able to agree among 
 themselves as to the best means of putting them 
 to death, and that if they ever should make up 
 their minds on the subject, escape would be next 
 to impossible. 
 
 We spent a pleasant afternoon with Colonel 
 C. who commands the Chinese disciplined force, 
 and after seeing all the curiosities of his singular 
 dwelling, he took us to another large temple — 
 this time a Confucian one, and more remarkable 
 for its size, and the extent of ground it covers, 
 
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 than anything else. There is evidently no care 
 bestowed on keeping it in repair, all it is used for 
 being, that at certain seasons of the year, people 
 come to offer sacrifices in honour of their great 
 moralist, for whose principles there is a universal 
 and profound respect, though it is not thought 
 necessary to carry them into practice ! On these 
 sacrificial occasions no priests officiate, the 
 people offer sacrifices themselves. 
 
 There are smaller altars to the memory of the 
 distinguished followers and contemporaries of 
 Confucius, as well as in an outer court, tablets to 
 that of his illustrious disciples in after-ages. Also 
 many tablets to his own memory, presented by 
 different people, and engraved with some of his 
 moral precepts. 
 
 A curious account was given us of the bribery 
 and corruption practised in the celestial empire 
 — how the Tautais of the different districts, and 
 all the highest Mandarins, have to buy their rank 
 and promotion, sometimes expending as much as 
 40,000 taels on the minister and all his con- 
 stituents, down to the very chair coolies. Of 
 course he in turn, " squeezes " those he is put to 
 rule over, and so the system of squeeze circulates 
 through all classes. 
 
 We called on Miss L., but she being out, we 
 
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 did not see the school, only a few of her pupils, 
 who ran away like frightened rabbits when they 
 saw us — finding, however, that we were perfectly 
 harmless, they soon regained sufficient courage to 
 come and have a good look at us.* 
 
 In the evening we had a rechauffd of the 
 previous day's dinner-party, with two additions, 
 one of whom I found had come to the East by 
 the same steamer that I did. 
 
 Oct. 6th. — To church in the morning — congre- 
 gation only thirteen in number. There was no 
 music except two hymns — the clergyman acting 
 as precentor, and " setting up " the tunes. At 
 four o'clock we sailed again for Shanghai. The 
 scenery on the river is rather pretty, — ^green 
 valleys bounded by distant hills till we got near 
 the entrance, where it is of a rougher, wilder type 
 of beauty, — two high hills on each side, one of 
 them defended by a fort, and in the middle of the 
 channel a great rock on which there is a lighthouse. 
 
 On arriving at Shanghai, we found the steamer 
 was not to sail for Japan till three days later than 
 we expected. Had we known this, we might 
 have accepted our host's kind invitation to remain 
 a few days longer, and gone some of the pretty 
 expeditions into the country round Ningpo. Of 
 
 * See Note A. 
 
1 68 ' Letters from China. 
 
 these, that to the snowy valley is said to be the 
 most beautiful, but a good many days are required 
 for the excursion. 
 
 LETTER XX XVII. 
 
 S.S. Costa Rica, idth Oct. 187-. 
 
 We left Shanghai at 7 a.m. on the 12th, and an 
 hour thereafter found ourselves at a standstill on 
 the bar at Woo-sung. 
 
 In spite of the size of their rivers, the Chinese 
 have an inconvenient prejudice against dredging, 
 which makes accidents of the kind very frequent. 
 On the present occasion we had the satisfaction 
 of seeing another large steamer in the same pre- 
 dicament ; and it was not till eight in the evening 
 that the tide came to our release. 
 
 At one yesterday morning we sailed into the 
 harbour at Nagasaki, which, even by the " dim 
 religious light " of the moon, was " beautiful 
 exceedingly." It is surrounded by an amphi- 
 theatre of hills, wooded almost to the water's 
 edge ; and with the sun shining brightly on all 
 the men-of-war and ' merchant ships lying at 
 anchor, one could hardly imagine a prettier, 
 or gayer scene. 
 
Letters from China. 169 
 
 I was grieved to depart without going on 
 shore, but the heat was too great, and our time 
 too short, for much enjoyment, even had we been 
 able to do so. I therefore had to be satisfied 
 with admiring the view from the deck of the 
 steamer, while we chatted with the various sailor 
 friends who came on board to see us. 
 
 The number of passengers had there, a l^rge 
 accession of Japanese, and a very curious-looking 
 people they are. I do not as yet like their 
 appearance so much as that of the Chinese. The 
 married women, having their teeth blackened, 
 look hideous ; and I should think the object in 
 view must be thoroughly attained thereby — ^viz., 
 that of preventing all admiration from flirting 
 cavaliers. 
 
 Almost all the men have spoilt their national 
 dress by wearing some piece of European attire, 
 such as a wide-awake hat, or large boots. One 
 boy evidently thinks himself very smart. He 
 has on tight-fitting white flannel trousers, over 
 which' he has put on boots, and a short cut-away 
 coat gives him altogether a very " horsey " 
 appearance. 
 
 This morning we were up betimes in order to 
 see the straits, at the entrance of what is called 
 the " Inland Sea." Found we had been much 
 
1 70 Letters from Japan. 
 
 too active, as we did not reach them till two 
 hours later, however, the beauty of the scenery- 
 rewarded us for a little loss of sleep. Just 
 within the straits we passed Simonosaki, after 
 which the sea opened out so wide, land was only 
 visible in the distance, till the afternoon, when we 
 again passed numerous islands. 
 
 October i^th. — Yesterday we arrived at H logo, 
 or Kobe — the former being the name of the 
 Japanese town — the latter of the European 
 Settlement. 
 
 This morning we walked to a waterfall, at a 
 little distance from the town. There was not 
 much water, but the situation of the fall is very 
 picturesque, and from the height to which we 
 had to climb, we had an excellent view of the 
 surrounding well-cultivated country. We had 
 intended to ride in the afternoon, but the sun 
 was too hot early in the day, and being told that 
 five o'clock was the hour of departure, we merely 
 took a stroll through the town. The European 
 settlement is well built, with a wide " bund " along 
 the harbour, and the other streets broad and 
 clean. Many pretty-looking houses are situated 
 on the hills behind, and there are apparently good 
 roads and pathways in all directions. Though 
 not by any means so lovely or so fascinating at 
 
Letters from Japan. 171 
 
 first sight as Nagasaki, it may possibly be a 
 pleasanter residence, from being less confined, and 
 possessed of more outlets for driving and riding. 
 The cxirious little native carriages called Gin-rik- 
 sha are drawn by men, at the rate of from five 
 to six miles an hour. 
 
 In the Japanese town, the streets are much 
 wider and cleaner than those in Chinese cities. 
 There is also a marked and most pleasing con- 
 trast in the cleanliness of their houses. So 
 fearful are they of the floor being dirtied, they 
 always take off their shoes before entering them. 
 Such care is very necessary, for they have neither 
 bed, chairs, nor tables, so the floor which is 
 generally covered with nice clean matting, has to 
 perform the duties of all these articles of furniture. 
 
 In the morning we had passed through a 
 temple where there was evidently some f(§te 
 going on, and in the afternoon we met a great 
 wooden car filled with gaily-dressed people. 
 This grotesquely-carved vehicle, which reminded 
 one of the stories of Juggernaut, was dragged 
 along principally by crowds of children. We 
 were told there had been some repairs going on 
 in the temple we had seen in the rhorning, which 
 had necessitated the removal of an image of its 
 presiding goddess, and the fete was in honour of 
 
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 her return to her usual abode. So many children 
 decked out in bright colours, gave the streets a 
 very gay aspect, the wearers of the holiday attire 
 too, are a much livelier-looking race than the 
 juvenile celestials, who are the gravest little 
 mortals I ever saw. 
 
 It was amusing to observe the jaunty air of 
 those of the grown-up population, who were the 
 happy possessors of any bit of European dress. 
 Thfey certainly considered it quite entitled them 
 to a bowing acquaintance with us ! However, they 
 seem really to be a polite nation, and this even 
 among the lower classes, who bow to each other 
 in the most ceremonious and respectful manner. 
 When one man approaches another, the two stop 
 when some yards apart, make a sudden, jerky, 
 very low bow, say a word or two, and then pass 
 on with the same diving style of salutation. 
 
 Their dress seems to vary with their occupa- 
 tion. Some wear very little clothing of any kind 
 — others a garment much resembling a dressing- 
 gown, while a good many of those we saw were 
 clad in very tight black lower integuments, with a 
 tunic, also black, and on their back a number of 
 white hieroglyphics denoting, I believe, the name 
 and occupation of their master. This black cos- 
 tume and the curious horn-like way they dress the 
 
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 hair, makes the latter class of the community 
 look as if they had recently ascended from the 
 lower regions ! 
 
 The women's dress, in which there is not much 
 variety, you must have often seen in pictures, so I 
 need hardly describe it. 
 
 In the original it is picturesque, but must be 
 most uncomfortable from the extreme narrowness 
 of the petticoat, which causes great difficulty in 
 walking ; this, added to the loose kind of pattens 
 they wear on their feet, obliges them to shuffle 
 along with that Grecian bend which is said to be 
 the origin of a somewhat similar fashion among 
 nations who ought to know better than to distort 
 their natural gait. 
 
 20th. — Behold us at the International Hotel, 
 Yokohama, having just landed under a leaden sky 
 and torrent of rain. 
 
 First impressions of this part of Japan decidedly 
 unfavourable ! 
 
 LETTER XXXVIII. 
 
 Yokohama, 30M October. 
 The close of my last letter was doubtless in 
 keeping with the ungenial state of the external 
 world on the day when we arrived here. 
 
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 That evening, however, under the influence of 
 a warm fire, and our friend C. D.'s cheerful society, 
 our spirits began to revive^ and the mental bar- 
 ometers rose at once to " Set Fair " when the fol- 
 lowing morning we found a bright sun pouring 
 its rays into our before-tirne rather dreary-looking 
 saloon. 
 
 People tell us we have chosen a very bad time 
 of year for our visit, the weather being gene- 
 rally very uncertain at this season — a statement 
 which our short experience has already proved to 
 be most correct, as some days are like summer, 
 while others are " cold, and dark, and dreary." 
 
 Yokohama seems to be a great centre point for 
 the mails from different directions to meet, nor has 
 the enterprising Mr. Cook failed to penetrate 
 to even this far distant corner of the globe. A 
 large party of his excursionists arrived from San 
 Francisco a few days ago, and are living in this 
 hotel. Our cosmopolitan dog Scuttle sX. once made 
 acquaintance with them all, for having established 
 herself as a kind of " Institution " in the public 
 room, she goes round to the different tables, chin- 
 chinning graciously to all the new arrivals, for 
 which piece of politeness the wily old quadruped 
 , soon discovered she would be duly rewarded. 
 
 Most of the European residents live at some 
 
Letters 'from yapan. 175 
 
 distance from the town, on a hill called the Bluff, 
 and in pretty detached villas, which must com- 
 mand a very extensive view. 
 
 Some friends whom H. knew, when here five 
 years ago, came to see us, and our old friend Dr 
 V. has kindly acted as cicerone on several 
 excursions. One day he took me a long walk 
 into the country, and then, for the first time, I saw 
 the Camellia yaponica growing in the woods like 
 any ordinary forest tree, and covered with blossom 
 — not, of course, in its wild state, equal to our 
 wax-like flowers, but luxuriant in quantity if not 
 in quality. It is too late in the season for many 
 other flowers, so we shall not see the famed 
 liliums of Japan in bloom, but the endless variety 
 of beautiful evergreens prevent the gardens 
 having a very wintry aspect. 
 
 The villages we passed through, were wonder- 
 fully clean considering the evident poverty of the 
 inhabitants, and still more wonderfully free from 
 bad smells, a virtue one cannot fail to remark after 
 a residence in China. A Japanese cemetery we 
 visited was so full of tombstones, we thought it 
 most probably belonged to the sect who are 
 economical of space and burn their relatives. On 
 each tombstone there were two small holes and 
 one large one — the former to hold bamboos filled 
 
176 Letters from Japan. 
 
 with water, in which were placed bouquets of 
 flowers and evergreens, while the larger one is in- 
 tended to contain rice for the occupant of the grave 
 on fete days. 
 
 Except that they have graveyards, and do not 
 bury their dead promiscuously all over the 
 country, the Japanese seem to treat their 
 deceased relations in much the same manner as 
 the Chinese, for though one sect "cremate" and 
 the other do not, all unite in the respect paid to 
 their ancestors. 
 
 As in China, there are certain seasons of the 
 year more especially set apart for feasts in honour 
 of the dead. On these occasions the spirits of 
 the departed are supposed to be present, and 
 when all the rites are concluded, they are sent off 
 again to the place whence they came in little 
 boats neatly modelled in straw, in which are put 
 rice, water, and a small lamp to light them on their 
 way. Numbers of these little boats may be seen 
 on the " Inland Sea" at some periods of the year. 
 
 Economy of space does not prevail in any other 
 respect, saving that of their places of interment, 
 for the streets are all wide, even those in the 
 native city, and such is the march of intellect, that 
 they are lighted with gas, and have pillar letter- 
 posts in all directions. 
 
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 The Mikado is so anxious to break down all 
 old customs, he has begun to take every oppor- 
 tunity of showing his hitherto sacred person in 
 public. About a fortnight ago he opened the 
 railway from this to Yedo, and on the approaching 
 visit of the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, intends 
 to show himself again, so no doubt we shall have 
 the pleasure of seeing him. 
 
 It seemed quite a novel sensation, finding 
 ourselves once more travelling by rail, when, a 
 few days ago, we paid our first visit to Yedo. 
 
 We started at 1 1 a.m., accompanied by Dr V., 
 and found the train full of Japanese. They 
 evidently now highly appreciate their new mode 
 of locomotion, but we hear that the first day it 
 was opened, though crowds assembled to see it, 
 none of them would venture to travel by it. 
 There are only three stations between Yokohama 
 and Yedo, and the journey occupies about an 
 hour. Passing through the well-cultivated country, 
 yellow fields of ripe grain, large woods, and 
 cottages half hidden among clumps of fine trees, 
 we might almost have imagined ourselves in Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Arrived at our destination we all got into 
 Ginrikshas, each drawn by two men, one in front 
 of the other, and the pace at which our human 
 
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178 Letters from Japan. 
 
 tandems took us over the very rough streets did, 
 I assure you, necessitate a very firm seat, more 
 especially at the corners round which they swung 
 with a speed and sharpness which each time 
 threatened to upset carriages and occupants. 
 My lively young leader was evidently much 
 diverted by the fits of laughter caused by this 
 singular mode of progression, and of course went 
 all the faster in consequence. 
 
 Having resuscitated exhausted nature at a 
 tolerably good Japanese restaurant, we went to 
 the Marine School — a very imposing-looking 
 edifice with plenty of space around it, but H. not 
 finding the man he wished to see, off we dashfed 
 in our three carriages to the quarter of the town 
 called Shiba, where the tombs of the Tycoons are 
 situated. I believe you will instantly exclaim, 
 who and what are the Tycoons ? at least those 
 will do so who know as little about them as I did, 
 before coming to this Eastern hemisphere. Let 
 me therefore at once, and in few words enlighten 
 your minds on the subject. 
 
 Before the last revolution which took place in 
 1867, the Tycoons were the hereditary prime 
 ministers, in fact the outward and visible rulers 
 who carried on the government, and were all 
 powerful in the Empire, while the Mikado or real 
 
Letters from yapan. 179 
 
 Emperor, was considered too sacred a person for 
 mortal eyes to look on. The landlady of our 
 hotel told me that only three years ago, when he 
 was to pass through Yokohama, all the inhabit- 
 ants had orders to remain within doors. That 
 state of affairs is now all changed ; the Mikado, 
 with a council of ministers to assist him, governs 
 his own Empire, and that apparently in a very 
 despotic manner. The magnificent tombs in 
 which the Tycoons and their wives are laid is all 
 therefore, that now remains of their departed 
 greatness. They are situated in beautiful grounds 
 amidst ancient trees and evergreens, and are 
 approached through an avenue of handsome stone 
 lanterns. We were admitted into them by a most 
 polite monk or priest, who amiably permitted us to 
 enter without taking off our boots — a privilege he 
 would not have granted to any of his countrymen. 
 The brilliant painting and gilding with which the 
 tombs are decorated, reminded one of the repre- 
 sentation of the Alhambra, at Sydenham, and the 
 carving, bronze, and lacquer work gave a mavel- 
 lous impression of the perfection to which the 
 Japanese have carried these arts. After spending 
 some time in examining all these wonderful 
 decorations, we paid a visit to a lively little French 
 woman, whose husband has some appointment 
 
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 under government. They live in a very curious 
 and primitive abode belonging to a Japanese 
 Prince, 2xA glazed, like other houses of the country, 
 with paper. 
 
 Our next and much longer expedition, was to 
 Yukoska, where there is an arsenal under French 
 direction, on much the same principle as that at 
 Foo-Chow, except that it seems to be carried on 
 in a less pretentious and more economical way. 
 We remained there over a day, and were most 
 kindly treated by the Director and other officials;' 
 but, alas! it would rain, almost without ceasing, 
 from the evening we arrived till the time we left, 
 so it was only during a few very lucid intervals, 
 we had an opportunity of seeing what a pretty 
 situation the arsenal occupies — nestled among 
 hills covered with trees "coming close down to the 
 very works, and z. perfect little harbour, just large 
 enough for what is required, and nearly land- 
 locked. It .is a most retired spot, and must, we 
 think, be rather dull as a residence, notwithstand- 
 ing its great natural beauty. 
 
 Mon. V. kindly sent his largest steamer back 
 with us, which enabled us to accomplish our 
 return voyage most comfortably. 
 
Letters from Japan. i8i 
 
 LETTER XXXIX. 
 
 <)th November. 
 
 I have now to record a second visit to Yedo, 
 when C. D. acted as guide and interpreter. 
 Without the latter it is by no means easy to get 
 on, as " Pidgin EngHsh " is of Httle use, even 
 with domestic servants, in Japan, and none what- 
 ever with the general population. Some little 
 knowledge of the language is therefore absolutely 
 necessary for those who reside in the country, 
 though mere visitors like ourselves find a very 
 few words go a long way. Were we remaining 
 here, I should think it no hardship to be obliged 
 to learn Japanese ; it is very easy, and a soft, 
 musical language, not very unlike Italian in the 
 pronunciation of some words. 
 
 And now to return to our Yedo expedition. 
 We thought this time, we should try the effect of 
 being drawn by quadrupeds instead of bipeds. 
 Accordingly we ascended into a high vehicle of 
 the genus break, drawn by two horses, and in it 
 were jolted over the streets till one felt quite 
 imbecile, bodily and mentally ; saw the temple 
 at Asakusa, the largest in Yedo, very handsome, 
 and gorgeously decorated with gold lacquer. A 
 number of people were doing their "joss pidgin," 
 
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 and throwing alms into a trough with a grating 
 over it, in front of the altar : the priests going 
 through the usual ceremonies, which resemble so 
 much those of the Romish Church. 
 
 In the extensive garden and grounds which 
 surround the temple, we saw most curious speci- 
 mens of the national skill in training plants (some 
 of them not more than from one to two feet high) 
 to assume the appearance of ancient trees. There 
 were also some most grotesque wooden figures 
 clothed in garments of chrysanthemum, and 
 placed in all sorts of ridiculous attitudes. One, 
 for instance, represented a boy tumbling head 
 over heels, the different parts of his dress being 
 formed by the foliage and flowers of different 
 colours : the trousers brown or green, the coat 
 yellow, and the waistcoat white. 
 
 A steani engine and railway carriage, nearly as 
 large as real ones, were most perfectly modelled 
 in the same way. The body of the carriage was 
 green ; yellow flowers formed the foot-board ; the 
 wheels were brown, and the windows some other 
 colour. How these growing plants can be trained 
 in such a marvellous manner baffles my compre- 
 hension ; but the artists must not only possess 
 skilful hands but infinite patience, as well as most 
 grotesque imaginations. 
 
Letters from Japan. 183 
 
 In the same grounds there was also a large 
 collection of birds and monkeys belonging to the 
 temple. Of these the stork is considered the 
 most sacred bird in Japan, and is to be seen 
 represented on most of their lacquer-work. 
 
 Being one of their numerous fete days, the 
 road to the temple was lined with gaily-decorated 
 booths, where they were selling toys and all 
 kinds of odds and ends, which looked more 
 attractive in the distance than on closer inspec- 
 tion. 
 
 Again we mounted our exalted carriage, but 
 had not gone far when a sudden jerk and the de^ 
 scent of one corner of our chariot to the ground, 
 informed us that a wheel had come off, so out we 
 scrambled amidst a large, and let us hope, sympa- 
 thising crowd. Leaving our wrecked vehicle, we 
 betook ourselves to Ginrikshas which I, at least, 
 much prefer to our experience of Yedo carriages, 
 as in them there is some novelty and amusement 
 to make up for the unmerciful rattling to which 
 one's bones are, in either case, subjected. En 
 roitte to the station we passed through numerous 
 fortifications, and over two moats which surround 
 the castle, but supposing ourselves rather late for 
 the train, we did not take time to visit the latter. 
 
 The streets we drove through on this second 
 
184 Letters from Japan. 
 
 expedition were much more crowded and busier- 
 looking than any we had seen before. The ex- 
 tent of the town is immense — indeed it is said to 
 cover moreground than any town in the world ex- 
 cept London, but many parts of it are quite de- 
 serted, whole streets being occupied by low, 
 barracky-lookihg houses which were formerly 
 occupied b)' the retainers of the different Daimios 
 or Princes, when they visited Yedo. Under the 
 Mikado regime, these princes are now requested to 
 stay in the country, so their followers have no 
 longer an opportunity of fighting each other, as 
 they did in these " good old days " not long gone 
 bye, 'for when H. was here before, almost every 
 man carried two swords. We have seen a few 
 who still do so, some of them very wild-looking 
 fellows, but the custom has, to a great extent 
 been given up, and many of the poorer Yaconins 
 have turned their swords. into shoe ,brushes, and 
 become servants in the households of the Euro- 
 pean residents. 
 
 Some of the women we saw were rather pretty, 
 in a pink and white doll style, but their faces were 
 covered with flour or powder, and they gaped at 
 us with an expression of face so utterly idiotic, I 
 cannot understand how some people admire them 
 so much. 
 
Letters from yapan. 185 
 
 Fusi-yama, the great mountain of Japan, has 
 been so obliging as to show the top of his peak to 
 us on various occasions lately — a favour his cloud- 
 capped majesty does not always accord to visitors. 
 It is 13,000 feet high, and its conical peak is con- 
 stantly covered with snow, except during the 
 months of July and August. The Japanese are 
 so proud of their truly grand-looking mountain, 
 they manage to introduce it, like the sacred stork, 
 on almost all their lacquer ware. 
 
 There was a shock of an earthquake two 
 evenings ago, but it must have been very slight, 
 as it did not awake us, though we were only 
 slumbering quietly in our chairs after a long day's 
 expedition. 
 
 LETTER XL. 
 
 idth November. 
 
 Hearing that the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia 
 was to start for Yedo at 1 1 a.m. and that, of course, 
 there would be a great assemblage of Japanese of 
 all ranks on the occasion, Ginrikshas were ordered, 
 and off we went to the station to find ourselves on 
 arriving there, an hour too soon. The time, how- 
 ever, was not lost, for we were well amused in 
 
1 86 Letters from yapan. 
 
 watching the arrival of all the authorities, and the 
 proceedings of a regiment of cavalry which was 
 drawn up as a guard of honour. Dressed in Euro- 
 pean clothes, and with their brown faces and slouch- 
 ing gait, the effect, as we looked along the line, 
 was much that of a regiment of well-grown mon- 
 keys, though perhaps those animals were still 
 better represented by the coachmen who drove 
 the royal carriages (the latter from Lawrie & Co.) 
 and who were clad in English liveries much too 
 large for any of the wearers.. The hats with 
 their cockades quite extinguished the poor little 
 people. 
 
 One of the officials, a very intelligent-looking 
 man, was introduced to us ; he had been in 
 England and spoke English perfectly. He and 
 itiany others present, wore full court dress — long, 
 loose robes of different colours, and trimmed with 
 white — a broad band of white wa's also round 
 their black, fool's-cap-looking head-dresses, which 
 made them appear as if they had recently come 
 out of hospital, or at all events were suffering 
 from severe colds in the head. Even they, men 
 of good position, spoiled the effect of their costume 
 by wearing European boots. 
 
 The state railway carriage is very handsome, 
 without being too gorgeous, and has a chrysan- 
 
Letters from Japan. 187 
 
 themum, the crest of the Mikado, English fashion, 
 on the panels. 
 
 19//^. — Went with some American friends to 
 a musical entertainment, at the house of the 
 Governor of Yokohama. On our arrival, we 
 were met at the door by the lady of the house, 
 a very pretty little person with a sweet, gentle 
 voice and manner. As neither she nor her 
 husband can speak English, conversation was 
 carried on under difficulties, Mr L. acting as 
 interpreter. , 
 
 We were taken up two steep flights of stairs 
 into an upper chamber, which was furnished like 
 a European room with carpet and chairs, the 
 walls hung with English pictures, including prints 
 of the Queen and Prince Consort. 
 
 Presently the three musicians arrived, and 
 took their places on the floor in the middle of the 
 room. The principal instrument calledthe "Kioto" 
 is about five feet long, and has about a dozen 
 strings — the two others are respectively like a 
 primitive guitar, and violin. 
 
 Having tuned, or rather unt\ys\t.d. their instru- 
 ments, the performance began, the musicians 
 accompanying themselves in a low monoton- 
 ous whine through their noses. They played 
 four long pieces, in not one of which was it 
 
i88 Letters from y apan. 
 
 possible to detect the smallest attempt at any- 
 air, but the Kioto produced some very sweet 
 notes. The general effect was extremely mono- 
 tonous, and calculated to have a very soporific 
 effect, as was proved by one of the party falling 
 fast asleep in his chair — an example which, after a 
 long ride, I had some difficulty in not following. 
 
 The musical performance being over, refresh- 
 ments were brought in. A small, square, red 
 table the height of a stool, was placed in front 
 of each person, on it was a small dish containing 
 a promiscuous-looking mess of concentrated fish, 
 stewed chestnuts, and I know not what besides. 
 A knife and fork were placed on each table, but 
 the Governor said they were only intended for 
 ornament, as, in order to have correct personal 
 experience of Japanese manners and customs, we 
 ought to use the chopsticks which were also pro- 
 vided, and sit on our knees. Accordingly, down 
 we all squatted, and a most amusing scene it was 
 to look round the room, and observe the unusual 
 position of so many respectable Britons. Our 
 feeble efforts to handle chopsticks in an efficient 
 manner, evidently afforded much amusement to 
 our host and hostess ; the former said it consoled 
 him in some measure for the difficulty he had 
 often found in European houses, when he saw 
 
Letters from, yapan. 189 
 
 us in a similar dilemma, with regard to his own 
 national implements. 
 
 The food was horrid, and most of us merely 
 tasted it, in which case, according to the manners 
 of the country, all we left ought to have been sent 
 to us next day, which ceremony, however, our 
 enlightened entertainer spared us. Mr M. in his 
 great politeness ate almost all that was put before 
 him, and as might be expected, was very ill in 
 consequence. We had Champagne to drink, and 
 also saki, the wine of the country made from 
 rice, which the Japanese drink hot, but they 
 allowed us to have it cold. It was handed round 
 in very small cups, and even when taken cold is 
 not at all good, but tastes rather like very attenu- 
 ated amontillado. 
 
 Mr M. having made polite speeches on behalf 
 of the party, which Mr. Governor reciprocated, we 
 bid adieu to him and his nice little wife, who did 
 the honours most gracefully, even though they 
 had to be enacted principally in P&ntomime. 
 
 LETTER XL I. 
 
 loth November. 
 
 A lovely morning, so we started at 8 a.m. 
 accompanied by two friends to ride to Dai-butsz, a 
 
I go Letters from, Japan. 
 
 distance of eighteen miles, through scenery so 
 beautiful that one part of it is called " the plains 
 of heaven, " and truly I doubt whether the human 
 mind could picture to itself a fairer scene. The 
 bright blue sea with its picturesque inlets on the 
 one side, while on the other an undulating, richly 
 wooded country, varied by the red autumnal tints 
 of the maple, stretches away as far as the eye can 
 reach, till the majestic Fusi-yama rises in the 
 distance to cut the clear sky with its snowy peak. 
 What a long sentence I have written ! You must 
 however excuse my becoming ecstatic, as I really 
 think it was the loveliest ride I ever had, and no 
 one can have an idea of the beauty of the country, 
 who travels only by the carriage roads. 5^ven 
 more charming than the extensive view from the 
 high ground, were the exquisite little bits which 
 we came to at almost every turn, as we trotted 
 cheerily along the narrow pathways. In some 
 places these bridle paths are so narrow as to 
 necessitate single file, and a little dangerous 
 occasionally, where the numerous ditches are 
 crossed by very untrustworthy wooden bridges. 
 One of these gave way as H. was crossing 
 it, causing his pony to fall ; however he threw 
 himself off, and the pony extricated its legs in 
 some marvellous manner, so no damage was done. 
 
Letters from Japan. 191 
 
 About ten rtiiles from Yokohama we passed a 
 pretty village called Kanasawa, where I should 
 have much liked to stay, but we had still a long 
 way to go and no time to diverge from the main 
 object of the expedition, which was to see the 
 great bronze statue of Dai-butsz. We arrived at 
 our destination about eleven o'clock, and at once 
 paid our respects to the colossal, but very amiable- 
 looking God of Benevolence. 
 
 When I mention that his height is fifty feet, 
 and circumference of the body 98, you can imagine 
 the relative proportion of his features, and that 
 there is ample space within (he is entered by a 
 door) for the names of all visitors to be inscribed. 
 Having done due honour to our large friend, we 
 adjourned to an old temple which contained 
 another enormous image ; but it was not in such 
 good repair as the Japanese generally keep their 
 places of worship. A very curious, and not very 
 pretty custom they have, is to try and keep away 
 evil spirits by chewing paper and spitting it at 
 their images. This accounts for the untidy 
 appearance of some large images which we saw 
 bespattered all over, with these balls of half 
 masticated paper. The small pieces of paper 
 which are sold for this purpose, have on them the 
 likeness of some god or goddess and some 
 
192 Letters from Japan. 
 
 written characters, probably either a prayer or a 
 malediction. 
 
 On getting back to the tea-house, where we 
 were to rest ourselves and our steeds, we were 
 not sorry to find that the Bettos had arrived with 
 a goodly supply of food, for which we were all 
 quite ready. 
 
 These " Bettos," or horse-boys, think nothing 
 of running forty or fifty miles. When you leave 
 home, you simply tell them where you are 
 going, and it is their business to be there at the 
 appointed time : they Very likely know some 
 shorter way across the hills, and are there before 
 you. Captain H.'s man, however, accompanied 
 us all the way, going along at a swinging trot, so 
 was always at hand to be of use if wanted. 
 
 I have said before that there is much variety 
 in the male costume, and may here mention that 
 the attire of the Bettos is peculiarly well suited 
 to their active life, many of them having little 
 more to carry than the most elaborate armour of 
 tatooing. 
 
 After " tiffin " we went to see a temple where 
 all the Norimons and swords are kept, belonging 
 to a distinguished family whose name I forgeL 
 Many of the swords were very handsome, the 
 Japanese evidently expending more on them than 
 
Letters from Japan. 193 
 
 on any other part of their apparel. The " Nori- 
 mon " is a very uncomfortable kind of palanquin, 
 used by the aristocratic classes. It has no raised 
 seat, so the occupant sits on the floor, without 
 room fully to extend his limbs. It is only a 
 slight degree less wretched than the cango used 
 by the common people, in which the knees must 
 nearly approach a level with the nose ; and in 
 this uneasy attitude the unfortunate traveller is 
 subjected to any jerking movement a rough road 
 or his bearers, may inflict. Their " Norimons," like 
 their swords, are sometimes very handsome. 
 
 We returned home by the " Tokaido," passing 
 through Kamakura, the most ancient capital of 
 Japan, and leaving temples on all sides unvisited ; 
 but daylight and physical strength have their 
 limits, so we could do no more. The ponies, 
 when their heads were turned homeward, became 
 so lively, and pulled so hard, the pace was at 
 times rather dangerous to the inhabitants of the 
 thickly-populated villages ; notwithstanding which, 
 we got- back about 5.30 without damage to 
 ourselves or others, and much satisfied with our 
 day's work. 
 
 The " Tokaido " is an excellent road, and one 
 of the leading thoroughfares of the land. It is 
 shaded in many parts by magnificent trees, princi- 
 
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194 Letters from Japan. 
 
 pally firs and cedars. The ancient timber is one 
 of the greatest beauties of Japan, and till lately it 
 was contrary to law to cut a tree down without 
 special permission, and planting a young one in 
 its place. Now, unhappily, these restrictions 
 seem to be' removed, and it is sad to see the 
 chopping down that is going on of many fine old 
 monarchs of the forest. I am told of a very 
 curious tree, something akin to the pine, the 
 health of which is improved by imbibing iron. 
 My informant had seen one which, having shewn 
 signs of decline, was completely restored to health 
 by having numbers of rusty nails driven into it. 
 
 LETTER XLII. 
 
 23^ November. 
 
 We were off early to the railway station to see 
 the arrival of the Mikado ; but his Majesty being 
 late, we found it very cold waiting, and were 
 much indebted to the kindness of Mr C, who 
 brdered a fire m. his room, and sent for break- 
 fast. 
 
 By the time the Mikado appeared, it was 
 raining in torrents ; so he very wisely made 
 up his mind to go quietly back to Yedo, and 
 
Letters from Japan. 195 
 
 postpone the naval review to a more favourable 
 day. 
 
 We all went on the platform to see him as he 
 returned to the railway carriage, and admired his 
 brave efforts to adopt the gracious manner of 
 European potentates, and bow to each side as he 
 passed along. 
 
 Just at the moment however, at which he 
 approached our little feminine group, and we 
 were preparing to receive him with our most 
 graceful curtsies, his Majesty's courage failed, 
 and he turned to the opposite side. 
 
 He is quite young, not above one-and-twenty, 
 tall, but not handsome. I know not how better 
 to describe his dress, thaii to tell you that he wore 
 two articles of apparel resembling somewhat a 
 cassock and chasuble — the former scarlet, the latter 
 white, surmounted by what I think was a plume 
 of black horse-hair : at all events it had the same 
 effect, and stood straight on end from his head. On 
 his feet, I need hardly mention, were the inevitable 
 boots with elastic sides, which seem so fascinating 
 to people of all ranks and ages in this country. 
 
 2<^th. — ^The sun made up for its absence on 
 Saturday by shining brilliantly when the Mikado 
 again arrived from Yedo to see the Russian ships, 
 and show the fleet of Japan to the Russian Prince. 
 
196 Letters from "jfapan. 
 
 It was a very gay sight when his majesty 
 arrived — the ships all decorated with flags — their 
 yards manned, and the firing and answering 
 salutes, from the English, French, Russian, and 
 Japanese men-of-war. As our windows look out 
 on the harbour, we had the benefit of the whole 
 scene without any trouble., 
 
 Most of the day was occupied by the evolutions 
 of the Japanese fleet, which is composed partly of 
 vessels built by themselves, and partly of those 
 bought in England. The Mikado in the mean- 
 time remained on board the ship of the Grand 
 Duke, where, it is said, he was immensely pleased 
 with a chorus sung by the Russian sailors. On 
 his departure, the guns again boomed forth their 
 farewell salutes, and we went to see him land, but 
 this time, he did not vouchsafe any gracious 
 bows, to a crowd formed principally of his own 
 subjects. 
 
 In the evening we went to a ball given by the 
 German Club in honour of the Grand Duke of 
 Russia, at which report said the Mikado had 
 proposed being preseht; this, however, proved 
 incorrect, but he sent some of his Ministers of 
 State, who, no doubt, must have been much 
 astonished at our foreign manners and customs. 
 
Letters from "jfapan. 197 
 
 LETTER XLIII. 
 
 On Board S.S., Zth December 187- 
 
 One more letter you must have, with our fare- 
 well experiences of Japan, ere we bid adieu to the 
 East, and the happy prospect of being among 
 you all once more, banishes all else from our 
 minds. 
 
 We had intended returning by P. and O., but 
 this steamer belonging to Messrs Holt, arriving 
 at Yokohama just in time to prevent our passage 
 being taken by the other vessel, the advantage ot 
 reaching England without any trans-shipment of 
 our numerous belongings, was too great ^ an 
 inducement to be resisted, so here we are. Scuttle, 
 self and husband, all fairly on our way home. 
 Our route is to be rather a circuitous one, which, 
 however, will be no disadvantage, as it will give 
 us an opportunity of seeing a little more of the 
 country. 
 
 The last few days have been spent principally 
 paying our final visits to the curio shops, the 
 charms of which I have never alluded to, though 
 much time has been spent in rummaging over 
 these interesting stores of lacquer, bronze, porce- 
 lain, and all manner of pretty and curious things. 
 Such researches are very amusing so long as you 
 
198 Letters from fapan. 
 
 do not particularly care whether you buy anything 
 or not, and to the sellers also, it often appears a 
 matter of such pure indifference, they sit quietly 
 warming themselves over their boxes of charcoal, 
 hardly making a remark, while all their goods are 
 being investigated. When, however, one really 
 wants to make a purchase, they ask such large 
 prices, that in trying to bring them to reasonable 
 terms, a great deal of time and much conversation 
 has to be expended. Of course they know that 
 casual visitors, here for a short time only, have no 
 leisure to do this, and in consequence, they are 
 considered fair game for imposition. 
 
 Be it recorded however, to the honour of this,' 
 as well as the Chinese nation, that they understand 
 a joke and can appreciate one, even when, (as it 
 usually is) at their own expense. As a general 
 rule therefore, if one is patient, and speaks in a 
 friendly, good-natured way, they seem rather to 
 like the fun of arguing over the price of their 
 wares, and if you leave the shop and shew them 
 that you decidedly do not intend to be imposed 
 on, they generally yield, and allow you to have 
 the article in question for a third of what they 
 asked, without harbouring any ill-will on the 
 subject. The unwary stranger is, under any 
 circumstances, much the better for having a 
 
Letters from Japan. 199 
 
 resident to accompany him in his shopping ex- 
 peditions, otherwise he may, besides high prices, 
 have a great deal of trash imposed on him, as it 
 requires some experience to know what is really 
 good lacquer, and the same remark applies to the 
 other productions of native talent. 
 
 Y'Xith. — Have been for two days at Kobe; one 
 of them we employed in going to Osaka, the sea- 
 port of Kioto, where, at the Imperial Mint, a very 
 handsome new coinage is being prepared, which 
 will soon completely supersede the dirty paper 
 money now in circulation. The small steamer which 
 conveyed us, took about two hours to go to the 
 entrance of the river on which Osaka is situated: 
 its banks on both sides as we approached the 
 town, were lined with junks loading and disembark- 
 ing cargo. 
 
 The streets are much narrower than those of 
 Yedo — much more densely populated, and present 
 a much busier aspect than any other town we 
 have seen in Japan. It is, in fact, the greatest 
 mart for merchandise in the Empire. Some 
 travellers of vivid imaginations have called it the 
 " Venice of Japan," but the only point of re- 
 semblance which can really be traced to the 
 ^' Bride of the Sea" xs in the numerous canals by 
 which the town is intersected, necessitating of 
 
200 Letters from Japan. 
 
 course, still more numerous bridges. The country- 
 is flat, with hills in the distance, and the castle is 
 the most important-looking object that met our 
 eyes during our short visit, the houses being the 
 same as in other towns, low and very humble- 
 looking tenements. After a hurried visit to a great 
 silk warehouse, and passing by many tempting- 
 looking emporiums of curios, towards which I 
 had only time to cast a few longing, lingering 
 glances, we made our way to the Mint, where we 
 were most hospitably received by Major and Mrs 
 K. After luncheon, the former took us all over 
 the establishment, and, thanks to his methodical 
 way of doing so, we managed to carry away, not- 
 withstanding the shortness of our visit, a tolerably 
 clear idea of what is going on there. 
 
 We saw all the different processes of melting 
 the metal, rolling it into bars, gauging them to as- 
 certain that they were the right breadth and 
 thickness, cutting the coins, cleaning, weighing and 
 stamping them, &c. Of all the machines, the one 
 I most admired was that in which the coins were 
 weighed, and which itself, by a most ingenious 
 mechanism, put the heavy, light, and correct 
 weight, all into different receptacles. Many large 
 workshops are in process of building for the coin- 
 age of copper, and also for gas and sulphur works. 
 
Letters from Japan, 201 
 
 There was at first a great prejudice against gas 
 among the Japanese officials^ who would not have 
 it in their houses, but by and by, when they saw 
 that Europeans used it without anything dreadfiil 
 happening, they became convinced that "fire 
 could be safely brought along pipes" as they ex- 
 pressed it, and now, being no longer horror-stricken 
 with the idea, they have gradually begun to use 
 it themselves. 
 
 Having spent a most interesting day, we re- 
 turned just in time for the little steamer, in which 
 we had a most horrible tossing all the way to 
 Kobe — the wretched little boat being knocked 
 about on the waves like a cockle shell. A fellow- 
 passenger who accompanied us in the morning, 
 missed that agreeable ordeal by being too late. 
 She did not however, seem to have improved 
 matters, as she made her appearance early next 
 day, nearly shaken to pieces, having come all the 
 way in a' Ginriksha, taking, as she said, five hours 
 for the journey. The beauty of the antique 
 bronzes at Osaka had evidently been the cause of 
 detention ; she returned with the most glowing 
 accounts, and a few handsome specimens of what 
 she had seen. No doubt the weight of the latter 
 had proved rather a serious impediment to the 
 pace of her human horses. 
 
202 Letters from yapan. 
 
 So great is the mania in Japan for the old 
 Naval and Military uniforms of other nations, 
 that there is a shop in Osaka full of them, and 
 we hear that when the mint was first established, 
 there had been in consequence, some little diffi- 
 culty about the dress of the subordinate officials. 
 ^ Many of them used to appear for their daily 
 duties, fully accoutred as foreign soldiers and 
 sailors, so the sentries who had been instructed 
 to salute when an officer passed, became so 
 utterly confused, they shouldered arms to every 
 one. 
 
 The Japanese appear from all we are told, to 
 be even a more intensely conceited nation than 
 the Chinese, and after attaining the most super- 
 ficial knowledge on any subject, are quite satisfied 
 they know as much as those who are teaching 
 them. Notwithstanding also, their eager desire 
 to imitate everything European, it is astonishing 
 how jealous they are of its being known that 
 they have foreign instructors, and how anxious 
 they are, on all public occasions, to keep them as 
 far as it is possible to do so, in the background. 
 
 \(^th December. — Again we have been at beauti- 
 ful Nagasaki, and this time remained for two 
 days, which made up for my disappointment in 
 not being able to land on our former visit. 
 
Letters from yapan. 203 
 
 Each town seems to have its own specialite in 
 works of art, and that of Nagasaki is certainly 
 porcelain, of which there was a beautiful collec- 
 tion in the Bazaar, where we spent a considerable 
 time. 
 
 The small island of Desima, is the most inter- 
 esting part of Nagasaki, owing to the fact, that 
 until 1859, it was the only part of Japan open to 
 foreigners, and then only to the privileged Dutch. 
 For niore than 200 years the traders of that 
 nation were there imprisoned as it were — never 
 being allowed to set foot beyond this historical 
 little island, which is only 600 feet long, and 250 
 broad, a narrow canal separating it from the 
 mainland. It is said that in 18 14, it was the 
 only place in the world where the flag of Holland 
 floated, and this by the sufferance of the 
 Japanese. 
 
 After leaving the Bazaar, we walked through 
 the charming grounds of Mr G.'s villa, where we 
 saw a fine old pine growing in the house, i.e., the 
 root really is in the house, and a hole is left in 
 the wall for the trunk of the tree. From that we 
 went to the Roman Catholic Church, where there 
 are two rather good pictures representing the 
 martyrdom of native Christians by crucifixion — 
 probably an episode of the 1 7th century. 
 
204 Letters from Japan. 
 
 Curiously enough, the priests who are pour- 
 trayed moving calmly about amid the horrid 
 butchery — comforting the crucified dying, and 
 sustaining the courage of those who are waiting 
 their turn to undergo the same awful doom, ap- 
 pear to be under no risk of molestation or ill usage. 
 
 Perhaps it was a beautiful idea in the mind of 
 the painter, that, though unseen by the eyes of 
 wicked men, their beloved teachers and pastors 
 were permitted by God, to be with the 'martyrs in 
 their " last dr-ead hour," that by the aid of their 
 presence and ministration, they might be the 
 better enabled to endure the frightful agonies of 
 such a death, and to die brave soldiers of Christ. 
 
 Their blood was not shed in vain — through 
 centuries of cruel persecution, Christianity has 
 never been banished from Japan, although even 
 in this very year, a new crusade against the 
 remnant that are left in this province, was under- 
 taken by the Imperial Government. Numerous 
 families were seized, placed on board Steamers in 
 Nagasaki, and said to be deported to other parts 
 of the Empire. Few of them, however, have 
 ever been heard of since. That Christianity 
 should be so much discouraged at the present 
 time, when there may be said to be no national 
 religion, seems singularly inconsistent. 
 
Letters from Japan. 205 
 
 Hitherto there have been two forms, that of 
 Shento or Shinto, and Buddha, but the latter has 
 been lately abolished by edict ; and the priests 
 sent away from the temples. It is said also, that 
 emissaries have gone to visit all the countries of 
 Europe to make observations and enquiries, and 
 bring back a report on the different forms of 
 Christianity, and then, probably, the Mikado or his 
 councillors, will make up their minds which of 
 them it is best to make the Established Church 
 of the Empire. 
 
 Everything is done "by edict" underthe Japanese 
 government, even to the cutting or non-cutting of 
 the hair. The order now issued is for the latter, 
 a propos of which an English lady told me she had 
 asked her servant how he liked letting his hair 
 grow^ — to which he replied he did not like it at all, 
 it made him. scratch too m,uch, which statement I 
 doubt not was correct, as the Jappish head in its 
 natural state is much like a shoe brush, with its 
 coarse mass of thick black hair. They certainly are 
 not a handsome race, for though we have occa- 
 sionally seen a few tall, good-looking specimens 
 of the nation, they are as a rule short and ill-made, 
 and if the Darwinian theory be correct, I should 
 say they must be several generations nearer the 
 
2o6 Letters from yapan. 
 
 parent monkey than we are, or even than their 
 Chinese neighbours. 
 
 The total absence of intellect, in the expression 
 of most of the women's faces, is greatly accounted 
 for by the fact of their entire want of education, 
 and the very low rank they have been allowed 
 to hold in the social scale. Not only have they 
 never received th^e respect due to reasonable beings 
 in this life, but their prospect of a share in any 
 future state, has actually beeri denied them. This 
 state of things is now happily being changed by 
 an edict which places them more on a footing with 
 their Lords and Masters. The old custom of 
 blackening the teeth when married, is also being 
 gradually abolished, and as the dye requires 
 frequent application, even those who have hitherto 
 been obliged to conform to the hideous practice, ' 
 may profit by this result of advancing civilization. 
 
 A still further improvement would it be to the 
 dark-eyed fair sex of Japan, were they forbidden 
 the use of paint and flour, with which they cover 
 neck and face with a most unsparing and un- 
 artistic hand ! As far as we have seen they do 
 not appear to be in the habit of wearing much 
 jewelry, the Obe being to the women, as 
 swords are to the men, their greatest point of ex- 
 travagance. These obds are worn round the 
 
Letters from Japan. 207 
 
 Waist like a sash, but are finished at the back 
 with a thick kind of hump, and are often made 
 of very costly materials. 
 
 On no subject is there a more marked improve- 
 ment than in the sense of decency which has been 
 acquired since H.'s last visit, when the cleanliness 
 of their habits was demonstrated in rather too 
 .open a manner by people of both sexes, whereas 
 now these public ablutions are totally discontinued. 
 On the point of cleanliness there is a certain 
 amount of inconsistency, for the attention which, 
 as has been seen, they bestow on their houses and 
 person, is by no means extended to their clothes. 
 The result is, of course, extremely disagreeable, 
 especially in the case of the clothed Ginriksha- 
 men, the odour of whose unwashed apparel is most 
 unpleasant when warm, and still more so when 
 thrust under the seat, as it often is, when they are 
 beyond the bounds of the European settlements, 
 where their wearing it is enforced. There is 
 evidently the want of an edict on the subject ! 
 Ere many years are over however, it seems as if 
 all national peculiarities, good, bad, and indifferent, 
 would disappear, should no counter revolution 
 take place to check the rapidity with which all 
 old things are passihg away. Schools are being 
 established all over the country to teach the people 
 
2o8 Letters fropt yapan. 
 
 English. Naval and Military men, as well as 
 numerous civilians from Europe and America, are 
 engaged to instruct them in the arts and sciences 
 of other nations, courts of judicature, it is said, 
 are to be established on the model of those in 
 England, and it is even added that the English 
 language alone, is to be used in all legal cases. 
 
 And now we have bid adieu to Japan and the 
 Japanese — very sorry for doing so without seeing 
 more of so beautiful a land, and so curious a 
 people. 
 
 We shall have one more glimpse of our respect- 
 able, steady-going conservative old friends, the 
 Chinese, as we are to stop at Hong-Kong for a 
 day, and then — farewell to the East \ 
 
NOTE A., p. 167. 
 
 The school here alluded to is well worth especial notice as 
 one of those quiet, unassuming, good works that are going on, 
 not only among our own people at home, but in many a far 
 comer of the earth, without the busy world being even aware 
 of their existence. 
 
 The first object of the school is to train the female children 
 of native converts, of whom there are now about sixteen or 
 eighteen, who are boarded, clothed, and supported at the 
 expense of the Church Missionary Society. 
 
 The school is under the superintendence of Miss Laurence, 
 assisted by a native matron and a pupil teacher. 
 
 The annual cost for the support of each girl is about ;^ 7 or 
 ;^8. One of the present inmates of the school, a very pro- 
 mising blind orphan girl, has been provided for during her 
 lifetitne by a lady in England, who was much touched by 
 reading an account of Miss Laurence's work, and who has 
 promised an annual gift of ^;^io for the entire support of this 
 little adopted daughter. 
 
 - The school-house, which has been built by a liberal grant 
 from the Society, and the aid of friends in England, is situ- 
 ated in the heart of the city, and adjoining the residence of 
 Bishop Russell of North China. There is ample accommo- 
 dation for an extension of the work on which Miss Laurence 
 is most anxious to enter — viz., a day-school for heathen chil- 
 dren. Funds for this branch of the work, and also for the 
 support of Bible-women — whom Miss Laurence employs in 
 the Lake District, a few miles from the city — are much 
 needed. But there is another want which I should indeed 
 ricjoice if any reader of these pages should be moved to 
 
2IO Note. 
 
 supply. Miss Laurence has now entered on the sixth year of 
 her labour of love, and is most anxious • to find a suitable 
 helper in her work. - Will no daughter of the Church of Eng- 
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 the work, and enable Miss Laurence, as soon as her health 
 may require it, to recruit her strength without having to leave 
 the work to suffer in her absence ? 
 
 What can be more useful than the training from early child- 
 hood of the future mothers of a nation where female education 
 has so long been neglected ? 
 
 Miss Laurence's brother, who has himself resided in China, 
 will gladly correspond with any friends of Missions who may 
 be willing to assist the good work in Ningpo. Letters should 
 be addressed to "Herbert Laurence, Esq., 12 Marlborough 
 Road, London, S.E." 
 
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 of 3J-. 6d. Books for the Young. 
 
 Each Story is independent and complete in itself They are pub- 
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 "We do not pretend to have read the history of Elsie as she is portrayed in 
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24 A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
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 SOLDIERING AND SCRIBBLING. A Series of 
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 Among the Essays in this Volume are the following : — At the 
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 and Punishment. — Christmas in a Cavalry Regiment. — Christmas 
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 EXCHANGE TABLES OF STERLING AND 
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 Being No. i of "Occasional Notes on Indian Affairs. " Cro\vn 
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 This subject is one of permanent importance to the whole of 
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 entirely preventible in India as elsewhere. 
 
Henry S. King &• Co.'s Publications. 25 
 
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 THE BETTER SELF. Essays for Home Life. Crown 8vo. 
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 LONGEVITY; THE MEANS OF PROLONGING 
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26 A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
 Gilbert (Mrs.) 
 
 MRS. GILBERT, FORMERLY ANN TAYLOR, 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND OTHER MEMORIALS OF. 
 
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 Godkin (James). 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRELAND: Primi- 
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 I vol. 8vo. 12s. 
 
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 " Mr. Godkin writes with evident honesty, and the topic on which he writes 
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 Godwin (William). 
 
 WILLIAM GODWIN : Autobiography, Memoir, and 
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 THE GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY UNVEILED. 
 
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 In all these essays Mr. Godwin pointed in the direction along 
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 NEERS AND TECHNICAL TROOPS IN THE 
 FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870-71. Translated by 
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 Goodman (Walter). 
 
 CUBA. THE PEARL OF THE ANTILLES. Crown 
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 Mr. Goodman had various and ample opportunities of studying 
 the institutions of Cuba, its races, and its government. He arrived 
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Henry S. King 6^ CoJs Publications. 27 
 
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 7ioticeof" The Times" on the First Edition. 
 
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 STUDIES OF THE DIVINE MASTER. Demy 8vo. 
 
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 Translated by L. D. B. Gordon, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Demy 
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 FIRST PRINCIPLES IN CHURCH AND STATE. 
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 Haeckel (Professor Ernst), of the University of Jena. 
 
 THE HISTORY OF CREATION, a Popular Account of 
 the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants, according to the 
 
Henry S. King &■ Co.'s Publications. 29 
 
 theories of Kant, Laplace, Lamarck, and Darwin. Tlie Transla- 
 tion revised by E. Ray Lankester, M.A. Witli Coloured Plates 
 and Genealogical Trees of the various groups of both plants and 
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 Nothing of the same form or on so extensive a scale has before 
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 Haweis (Rev. H. R.), M.A. 
 
 SPEECH IN SEASON. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. ^s. 
 
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 THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Eighth Edition. 
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 " We shall once more have reason to rejoice whenever we hear that a new 
 work is coming out written by one who beajs the honoured name of Hawthorne." 
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 IDOLATRY. A Romance. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 2\s. 
 
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 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: A Memoir, with Stories 
 now first published in this country. By H. A. Page. Post 8vo. 
 7j. dd. 
 
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 Hayman (Henry), D.D., late Head Master of Rugby 
 
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 Hellwald (Baron F. Von). 
 
 THE RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA. A Critical 
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 Explorations in Central Asia are being simultaneously carried on 
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 Asiatic world. Scientific research follows in the footsteps of miU- 
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 mankind derives from warlike expeditions. 
 
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 THE OPERATIONS OF THE BAVARIAN ARMY 
 CORPS. Translated by Captain G. S. Schwabe. With Five 
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 tary Books. 
 
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 AiheTuettm . 
 
 " An Instructive work." — Westminster Review. 
 
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 Hinton (James), late Aural Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. 
 
 THE PLACE OF THE PHYSICIAN. Being the Intro- 
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32 A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
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 TALES OF THE ZENANA; OR, A NUWAB'S 
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 * brilliant' authors of fifty times its pretensions." — Spectator. 
 
 Hoffbauer (Captain). 
 
 THE GERMAN ARTILLERY IN THE BATTLES 
 NEAR METZ, Ba.sed on the official reports of the German 
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 LITTLE DINNERS : HOW TO SERVE THEM 
 WITH ELEGANCE AND ECONOMY. Seventh Edition. 
 I vol. Crown Svo. 5^. 
 
 Shows how the best use can be made of cheap material, and 
 
Henry S. King &• Co.'s Publications. 33 
 
 helps to revive what threatens to become a lost art in the 
 home. 
 
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 " A neat and chatty little volume." — Hour. 
 
 Ho'ward (Rev. G. B.) 
 
 A LEGEND OF ST. PAUL'S. Fcap. Svo. 4^. (>d. 
 
 Howe (Cupples), Master Mariner. 
 
 THE DESERTED SHIP. A Real Story of the Atlantic. 
 Illustrated by Townley Green. Crown Svo. 3J-. 6d. 
 
 One of Mes.srs. Henry S. King and Co.'s 3^. dd. Books for the 
 Young. 
 
 " Curious adventures with bears, seals, and other Arctic animals, and with 
 scarcely more human Esquimaux, form the mass of material with which the 
 story deals, and will much interest boys who have a spice of romance in their 
 composition." — Couratit. 
 
 D 
 
34 A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
 Howell (James). 
 
 A TALE OF THE SEA, SONNETS, AND OTHER 
 POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 5^. 
 
 "Mr. Howell has a keen perception of the heauties of nature, and a just 
 appreciation of the charities of life. . . . Mr. Howell's book deserves, and will 
 probably receive, a warm reception." — Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 Hughes (Allison). 
 
 PENELOPE AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap.Svo. i^.(sd. 
 
 " In the shape they assume, there is much to challenge admiration, much 
 praise, and some absolute accomplishment. If the verse moves stiffly, it is 
 because the substance is rich and carefully wrought. That artistic regard for 
 the value of words, which is characteristic of the best modern workmanship, is 
 apparent in every composition, and the ornament, even when it might be pro- 
 nounced excessive, is tasteful in arrangement." — Athot^ian. 
 
 Hull (Edmund C. P.) 
 
 THE EUROPEAN IN INDIA. A Hand-book of Practical 
 Information for those proceeding to, or residing in, the East Indies, 
 relating to Outfits, Routes, Time for Departure, Indian Climate, 
 &c. With a Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a 
 Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Pre- 
 servation and Regulation of Health. By R. R. S. Mair, M. D. , 
 F. R. C. S. E. , late Deputy Coroner of Madras. Second Edition, 
 Revised and Corrected. In i vol. Post 8vo. (ss. 
 
 " Full of all sorts of useful information to the English settler or traveller in 
 India. " — Standard. 
 
 " One of the most valuable books ever published in India — valuable for its 
 sound information, its careful array of pertinent facts, and its sterling common 
 sense. It supplies a want which few persons may have discovered, but which 
 everybody will at once recognise when once the contents of the book have been 
 mastered. The medical part of the work is invaluable." — Calcutta Guardiajt. 
 
 Hutton (James). 
 
 MISSIONARY LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN SEAS. 
 
 With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. "js. 6d. 
 
 This is an historical record of mission work by the labourers of 
 all denominations in Tahiti— the Hervey, the Austral, the Samoa 
 or Navigator's, the Sandwich, Friendly, and Fiji Islands, &c. 
 
 " The narrative is calm, sensible, and manly, and preserves many interesting 
 facts in a convenient shape." — Literary Chitrchmaji. 
 
 Ingelow (Jean). 
 
 THE LITTLE WONDER-HORN. A Second Series of 
 " Stories Told to a Child." With Fifteen Illustrations. Square 
 24mo. y. bd. 
 
 " We like all the contents of the * Little Wonder-Hom ' very much." — 
 At/teti/^u»t. 
 
 " We recommend it with confidence." — Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 " Full of fresh and vigorous fancy : it is worthy of the author of some of the 
 best of our modern verse." — Standard. 
 
 OFF THE SKELLIGS. (Her First Romance.) 4 vols. 
 Crown 8vo. 42^'. 
 ^"Clever and sparkling." — Standard. 
 
 " We read each succeeding volume with increasing interest, going almost to 
 he point of wishmg there was a fifth." — Athtnawn. 
 
Henry S. King 6-" Co!s Publications. 35 
 
 International Scientific Series (The). 
 
 I. THE FORMS OF WATER IN CLOUDS AND 
 RIVERS, ICE AND GLACIERS. By J. Tyndall, 
 LL.D., F.R.S. Wth Twenty-six Illustrations. Fourth 
 Edition, ^s. 
 II. PHYSICS AND POLITICS; or, Thoughts on the 
 Application of the Principles of " Natural Selec- 
 tion " AND "Inheritance" to Political Society. 
 By Walter Bagehot. Second Edition. 4^-. 
 
 III. FOODS. By Edward Smith, M.D., LL.B., F.R.S. Pro- 
 fusely Illustrated. Third Edition. 5^. 
 ; IV. MIND AND BODY : The Theories of their Rela- 
 tion. By Alexander Bain, LL.D. Third Edition. With 
 Four Illustrations. 4J. 
 V. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY. By Herbert Spencer. 
 
 Third Edition. 5^. 
 VI. ON THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. By 
 Balfour Stewart, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. With Fourteen 
 Engravings. Third Edition. 5^. 
 
 VII. ANIMAL LOCOMOTION ; or. Walking, Swimming, and 
 Flying. By J. B. Pettigrew, M.D., F.R.S. Second Edition. 
 With 119 Illustrations. 5^. 
 VIII. RESPONSIBILITY IN MENTAL DISEASE. By 
 Henry Maudsley, M.D. Second Edition. 5j-. 
 
 IX. THE NEW CHEMISTRY. By Professor Josiah P. 
 Coolce, of the Harvard University. Second Edition. With 
 Thirty-one Illustrations. 5^- 
 X. THE SCIENCE OF LAW. By Professor Sheldon Amos. 
 Second Edition. 5^- 
 XI. ANIMAL MECHANISM. A Treatise on Terrestrial and 
 Aerial Locomotion. By Professor E. J. Marey. With 117 
 Illustrations. Second Edition. 5j-. 
 XII. THE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT AND DAR- 
 WINISM. By Professor Oscar Schmidt (Strasburg Univer- 
 sity). Second Edition. With 26 Illustrations. 5^-. 
 
 XIII. THE HISTORY OF THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN 
 
 RELIGION AND SCIENCE. By Professor J. W. 
 Draper. Second Edition. 5^-. 
 
 XIV. FUNGI ; their Nature, Influences, Uses, &c. By M. C. Cooke, 
 
 M.A., LL.D. Edited by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., 
 F. L. S. Crown 8vo. With numerous Illustrations. 5 j. 
 XV. THE CHEMICAL EFFECTS OF LIGHT, AND 
 PHOTOGRAPHY. By Dr. Hermann Vogel (Polytechnic 
 Academy of Berlin). With 74 Illustrations. 5^. 
 
 XVI. OPTICS. By Professor Lommel. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
 Forthcoming Volumes. 
 
 Mons. VAN BENEDEN. On 
 
 Animal Parasites and Messmates in the 
 Animal Kingdom. 
 
 Prof. W. KINGDOM CLIF- 
 FORD, M.A. The First Principles of 
 the Exact Sciences explained to the non- 
 mathematical. 
 
 Prof. T. H. HUXLEY, LL.D., 
 F.R.S. Bodily Motion and Conscious- 
 ness. 
 
 Dr. W. B. CARPENTER, LL.D. 
 F.R.S. The Physical Geography of the 
 Sea. 
 
 Prof. WILLIAM ODLING, 
 F.R.S. The Old Chemistry viewed 
 from the New Standpoint. 
 
 W. LAUDER LINDSAY, M.D., 
 F.R.S.E. Mind in the Lower Animals. 
 
 Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., 
 F.R.S. The Antiquity of Man. 
 
 Prof.W.T.THISELTON DYER, 
 
 _B.A.,B.Sc. Form and Habit in Flower- 
 ing Plants. 
 
 Mr. J. N. LOCKYER, F.R.S. 
 
 Spectrum Analysis. 
 
 Prof. MICHAELFOSTER,M.D. 
 Protoplasm and the Cell Theory. 
 
 Prof. W. STANLEY JEVONS. 
 IVIoney : and the Mechanism of Ex- 
 change. 
 
 H. CHARLTON BASTIAN, 
 M.D., F.R.S. The Brain as an Organ 
 of Mind. 
 
 Prof. A. C. RAMSAY, LL.D., 
 F.R.S. Earth Sculpture: Hills, Val- 
 leys, Mountains, Plains, Rivers, Lakes ; 
 how they were Produced, and how they 
 have been Destroyed- 
 
 Prof. RUDOLPH VIRCHOW 
 
 (Berlin Univ. ) Morbid Physiological 
 Action. 
 
 Prof. CLAUDE BERNARD. 
 
 Physical and Metaphysical Phenomena 
 of Life. 
 
 Prof. H. SAINTE-CLAIRE DE- 
 VILLE. An Introduction to General 
 Chemistry. 
 
 Prof. WURTZ. Atoms and the 
 Atomic Theory, 
 
 Prof. DE QUATREFAGES. The 
 
 Negro Races. 
 
 Prof. LACAZE - DUTHIERS. 
 
 Zoology since Cuvier. 
 
 Prof. BERTHELOT. Chemical 
 Synthesis, 
 
 Prof. J. ROSENTHAL. General 
 Physiology of Muscles and Nerves. 
 
 Prof. JAMES D. DANA, M.A., 
 LL.D. On Cephalization ; or, Head- 
 Characters in the Gradation and Progress 
 of Life. 
 
 Prof, S. W. JOHNSON, M.A. 
 On the Nutrition of Plants. 
 
 Prof. AUSTIN FLINT, Jr. M.D. 
 
 The Nervous System and its Relation to 
 the Bodily Functions. 
 
 Prof. W. p. WHITNEY. Modem 
 Linguistic Science. 
 
 Prof. BERNSTEIN [University of 
 Halle). Physiology of the Senses. 
 
 Prof. FERDINAND COHN 
 
 (Breslau Univ.) Thallophytes (Algse, 
 Lichens, Fungi), 
 
 Prof. HERMANN (University of 
 Zurich). Respiration, 
 
 Prof. LEUCKART (University of 
 LeipsicJ. Outlines of Animal Organiza- 
 tion. 
 
 Prof. LIEBREICH (University of 
 EeilinJ. Outlines of Toxicology. 
 
 Prof. KUNDT (University of Stras- 
 burg). On Sound. 
 
 Prof. REES (University of Erlangen). 
 On Parasitic Plants, 
 
 Prof. STEINTHAL (University of 
 Berlin). Outlines of the Science of Lan- 
 guage. 
 
 P. BERT (Professor of Physiology, 
 Paris), Forms of Life and other Cosmical 
 Conditions. 
 
 E. ALGLAVE (Profe.ssor of Consti- 
 tutional and Administrative Lawat Douai, 
 and of Political Economy at Lille). The 
 Primitive Elements of Political Constitu- 
 tions. 
 
 P. LORAIN (Professor of Medicine, 
 Paris). Modem Epidemics. 
 
 Prof.SCHUTZENBERGER(Di- 
 
 rector of the Chemical Laboratory at the 
 Sorbonne). On Fermentations. 
 
 Mons. FREIDEL. The Functions 
 of Organic Chemistry. 
 
 Mons. DEBRAY. Precious Metals. 
 
 Mons. P. BLASERNA (Professor 
 in the University of Romci. On Sound 
 the Organs of Voice and of Hearing. 
 
Henry S. King 6^ Co!s Publications. 3 7 
 
 Jackson (T. G.) 
 
 MODERN GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Crowu 
 8vo. Si-. 
 
 The author desires to induce some to pause in the midst of the 
 revival of Gothic architecture, which is being so assiduously pro- 
 moted, and to consider candidly what useful end the revival is to 
 serve, and what solid advantage society has hitherto obtained 
 from it. 
 
 " The reader will find some of the most important doctrines of eminent art 
 teachers practically applied in this little book, which is well written and popular 
 in style." — Manchester Exiinihu:r, 
 
 This thoughtful little book is .vorthy of the perusal of all interested in art or 
 architecture." — Standard. 
 
 Jacob (Maj.-Gen. Sir G. Le Grand), K.C.S.I., C.B. 
 
 WESTERN INDIA BEFORE AND DURING THE 
 MUTINIES. Pictures drawn from life. Second Edition. Crown 
 8vo. "js. dd. 
 
 " The most important contribution to the history of Western India during the 
 Mutinies which has yet, in a popular form, been made ^\M\c"—Atkeiueum.^ 
 
 " Few men more competent than himself to speak authoritatively concerning 
 Indian affairs." — Stajidard. 
 
 Jenkins (E.) and Raymond (J.), Esqrs., Barristers- 
 at-law. 
 
 A LEGAL HANDBOOK FOR ARCHITECTS, 
 BUILDERS, AND BUILDING OWNERS. Second 
 Edition Revised. Crown 8vo. ds. 
 
 A practical handboolc for the man who wishes to build, the man 
 who designs, and the man who erects the building. 
 
 "We can confidently recommend this book to all engaged in the building 
 trades." — Edhibtirgh Daily Review. 
 
 "Architects, builders, and especially the building public, will find the volume 
 very useful." — Freeman. 
 
 Jenkins (Edward), M.P. 
 
 GLANCES AT INNER ENGLAND. A Lecture de- 
 livered in the United States and Canada. Crown Svo. 5^. 
 
 " These * glances ' exhibit much of the author's characteristic discrimination 
 and judgment." — Edinburi^h Couraut. 
 
 " Cleverly written, full of terse adages and rapier-like epigrams it is ; thought- 
 ful and just it is in many respects." — Ec/io. 
 
 " Eloquent and epigrammatic." — Illustrated Review. 
 
 GINX'S BABY: HIS BIRTH AND OTHER MIS- 
 FORTUNES. Thirty-fourth Edition. Crown Svo. 2s. 
 
 LUCHMEE AND DILLO. A Story of West Indian Life. 
 2 vols. Demy Svo. Illustrated. \Preparing. 
 
 LITTLE HODGE. xV Christmas Country Carol. Foiu-- 
 teenth Thousand. With Five Illustrations. Crown Svo. ^s. 
 
 A Cheap Edition in paper covers, price is. 
 
 LORD BANTAM. Seventh Edition. Crown Svo. 2s. 6d. 
 
A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
 Kaufmann (Rev. M.), B.A. 
 
 SOCIALISM : its Nature, its Dangers, and its Remedies con- 
 sidered. Crown 8vo. 7j. (>d. 
 
 This volume, on the one hand, is addressed to the capitalists- 
 against whom the International and kindred affiliations are direct- 
 ing their open attacks and secret combinations ; on the other hand 
 it is addressed to those enlightened leaders of the labouring classes 
 who can see no other means of salvation for the working man than 
 the destruction of the capital and influence of the middle and upper 
 classes. 
 
 " Of great importance and full of instructive matter. . . . We do not hesitate 
 to recommend it to all readers interested in the important subjects of which it 
 treats." — Mr. T. E. Cliffe Leslie, in the Academy, 
 
 " A really complete theory upon the question. . . . Without assuming the 
 authority of all he (Dr. Schaffle) urges, as explained by his English editor, we 
 feel it would be difficult to recommend to those more especially interested a 
 better or more conscientious summing up of the entire arguments on both sides.'" 
 — Standard, 
 
 Keating (Mrs.). 
 
 HONOR BLAKE : The Story of a Plain Woman. 
 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 21^. 
 
 " One of the best novels we have met with for some time." — Momijtg Post. 
 Z." ^ story wliich must do good to all, j^oung and old, who read it." — Daily- 
 News. 
 
 Ker (David). 
 
 ON THE ROAD TO KHIVA. Illustrated ^\-ith Photo- 
 graphs of the Country and its Inhabitants, and a copy of the Official 
 Map in use during the Campaign, from the Sur^'ey of Captain 
 Leusilin. i vol. Post 8vo. \is. 
 
 *' Though It is a graphic and thoughtful sketch, we refer to it, in some degree, 
 for reasons apart from its intrinsic merits. . . . He (the author) has satisfied 
 us tbat he was not the impudent impostor he seemed to be ; and though he did 
 not witness the fall of Khiva, he travelled through a great part of Central Asia^ 
 and honestly tried to accomplish his task. . . . His work, we have said, is an 
 able resuvie of genuine observation and reflection, which will well repay a 
 reader's attention." — Times. 
 
 "A pleasant book of travels. It is exceedingly smart and clever, full oC 
 amusing anecdotes and graphic descriptions." — Vanity Fair. 
 
 THE BOY SLAVE IN BOKHARA. A Tale of Central 
 Asia. Crown 8vo. With Illustrations. 5j-. 
 
 One of Messrs. Henry S. King and Co.'s 5^-. Books for the 
 Young. 
 
 In this work real scenes are grouped round an imaginary hero ; 
 genuine information is conveyed in a more attractive foim than that 
 of a mere dry statistical report. 
 
 *' Ostap Danilevitch Kostarenko, the Russian who is supposed to relate the 
 story, has a great number of adventures, and passes by dint of courage and 
 ability from a state of slavery to one of independence. Will prove attractive to 
 hoys."— Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
Henry S. King &> CoJs Piihlications, 39 
 
 King (Alice). 
 
 A CLUSTER OF LIVES. Crown 8vo. ^s.^d. 
 
 Contents. — Vittoria Colonna — Madame Recamier — A 
 Daughter of the Stuarts — Dante — Madame de Sevigne — Geoffrey 
 Chaucer — Edmund Spenser — Captain Cook's Companion — Ariosto 
 — Lucrezia Borgia — Petrarch — Cervantes — ^Joan of Arc — Galileo — • 
 Madame Cottin — Song of the Bird in the Garden of Armida. 
 
 *' It is not every writer who possesses the faculty of leaving clear impressions 
 of his or her personages upon the minds of readers. This, however, is done, 
 and well done, by the writer of the volume before us." — Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 " A little collection of historical biographies .... very gracefully written, 
 .... brilliant and striking in scenes and costumes, wonderfully accurate as 
 to facts, sensible and correct in reflection." — Literary Churchma^i. 
 
 King (Mrs. Hamilton). 
 
 THE DISCIPLES. A New Poem. Second Edition, with 
 some Notes. Crown Svo. *js. 6d, 
 
 "A very remarkable poem. The writer does not seem so much to compose, 
 as to breathe it forth ; it is the fruit of intense personal feeling ; it glows with 
 the fires of an absolute conviction. It is a hymn of praise, a chaunt of sorrow, 
 suffering, and glory. . . . We feel when we have read a few pages that we are 
 in the presence of something strange to us, of something large and deep, of much 
 more devotion, love, and faith, than we are accustomed to. . . . That Mrs. 
 King's love for Mazzini has prompted her to write a poem apart from other 
 poems — original, touching, and ennobling — will, we tbink, be evident to any 
 one who will read the first few pa^es of her book." — Saturday Revieiv. 
 
 "Throughout it breathes restramed passion and lofty sentiment, which flow 
 out now and then as a stream widening to bless the lands, into powerful music." 
 British Quarterly Review, 
 
 ASPROMONTE, AND OTHER POEMS. Second 
 Edition. Cloth, 4^. 6^/. 
 
 **The volume is anonymous, but there is no reason for the author to be 
 ashamed of it. The ' Poems of Italy' are evidently inspired by genuine enthu- 
 siasm in the cause espoused ; and o»e of them, ' The Execution of Felice Orsini,' 
 has much poetic merit, the event celebrated being told with dramatic force." — ■ 
 Athenceuvi. 
 
 " The verse is fluent and free," — Spectator. 
 
 Kingsford (Rev. F. W.), M.A., Vicar of St Thomas's, 
 
 Stamford Hill ; late Chaplain H. E. I. C. (Bengal Presidency). 
 
 HARTHAM CONFERENCES ; or, Discussions upon 
 some of the Religious Topics of the Day. " Audi alteram partem." 
 Crown Svo. ■y. 6d. 
 
 Contents : — Introductory. — The Real Presence — Confession. — 
 Ritualism. 
 "Able and interesting. "—CA!<?-(-,4 Times. 
 
 Knight (Annette F. C.) 
 
 POEMS. Fcap. Svo. Cloth. 5j. 
 
 "The pleasant writer of these pleasant pages excels chiefly in poetical imagery, 
 in tracing the analysis of mind and matter, and in giving beautiful expression 
 to the most beautiful feelings of our nature." — Standard. 
 
4^ A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
 Lacordaire (Rev. Pere). 
 
 LIFE : Conferences delivered at Toulouse. Crown 8vo. ds. 
 
 " Let the serious reader cast his eye upon any single page in this volume, 
 and he will find there words which will arrest his attention and give him a 
 desire to know more of the teachings of this worthy follower of the saintly 
 St. Dominick." — Mortiing Fast. 
 
 Laurie (J. S.), of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law ; 
 formerly H. M. Inspector of Schools, England ; Assistant Royal 
 Commissioner, Ireland ; Special Commissioner, African Settlement ; 
 Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL COURSE OF SECULAR SCHOOL 
 BOOKS FOR INDIA. 
 
 " These valuable little works will prove of real service to many of our readers, 
 especially to those who intend entering the Civil Service of India." — Civil 
 Service Gazette. 
 
 The following Works are tumi ready : — 
 
 THE FIRST HINDUSTANI READER. Stiff linen wrapper, ea". 
 
 THE SECOND HINDUSTANI READER. Stifflinen wrapper, 6</. 
 
 GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA; with Maps and Historical Appendix, 
 tracing the growth of the British Empire in Hindustan. iz8 pp. fcap. 8vo. 
 Cloth, xs. 6d. 
 
 Ill thep-ess :— 
 ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA. 
 
 FACTS AND FEATURES OF INDIAN HISTORY, in a series 
 of alternating Reading Lessons and Memory Exercises. 
 
 Laymann (Captain), Instructor of Tactics at the Mihtary 
 
 College, Neisse. 
 
 THE FRONTAL ATTACK OF INFANTRY. Trans- 
 lated by Colonel Edward Newdigate. Crown Svo. 2,s. (>d. 
 
 "An exceedingly useful kind of book. A valuable acquisition to the military 
 studentls library. It recounts, in the first place, the opinions and tactical for- - 
 mations which regulated the German army during the early battles of the late 
 war; explains how these were modified in the course of the campaign by the 
 terrible and unanticipated effect of the fire ; and how, accordingly, troops should 
 be trained to attack in future wars." — Naval aiid Military Gazette. 
 
 Leander (Richard). 
 
 FANTASTIC STORIES. Translated from the German by 
 Paulina B. Granville. With Eight full-page Illustrations by M. E. 
 Fraser-Tytler. Crown Svo. 5^. 
 
 One of Messrs. Henry S. King and Co.'s 5j. Books for the Young. 
 
 " Short, quaint, and, as tliey are fitly called, fantastic, they deal with all 
 manner of subjects." — Ciiardiiin. 
 
 " * Fantastic* is certainly the right epithet to apply to some of these strange 
 talcs. " — £xaminer. 
 
Henry S. King 6^ Co.^s Fuhlicalions. 41 
 
 Leathes (Rev. Stanley), M.A. 
 
 THE GOSPEL ITS OV/N WITNESS. Being the 
 Hiilsean Lectures for 1873. i vol. Crown 8vo. 5^-. 
 
 This ■volume presents the evidential aspect of the Christian faith 
 in a plain, matter-of-fact, common-sense way. The author holds 
 that if we are sincere disciples of Christianity we need not shrink 
 from being advocates likewise, so long as we do not suffer our 
 advocacy to warp our judgment. 
 
 Lee (Rev. Frederick George), D.C.L. 
 
 GLIMPSES OF THE SUPERNATURAL. Being 
 Facts, Records, and Traditions, relating to Dreams, Omens, Mira- 
 culous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second- 
 sight, Necromancy, Witchcraft, &c. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 15^. 
 
 Lee (Holme). 
 
 HER TITLE OF HONOUR : a Book for Girls. New 
 Edition. Crown 8vo., with a Frontispiece. 5^' 
 
 Lenoir (J.) 
 
 FAYOUM; OR, ARTISTS IN EGYPT. A Tour with 
 M. Gerome and others. Crown 8vo. With 13 Illustrations, yj. ()d. 
 
 " The book is verj' nmusing. . . Whoever may take it up will find he has 
 with Itim a bright and pleasant companion." — Sftvctator. 
 
 "A pleasantly written and very readable book." — Exatninei'. 
 
 Listado (J. T.) 
 
 CIVIL SERVICE. A Novel. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 2ij. 
 
 "A very charming and amusing story. . . The characters arc all well drawn 
 and life-like. . . It is with no ordinary skill that Mr. Listado has drawn the 
 chnracter of Hugh Haughton, full as he is of scheming and subtleties. . . The 
 plot is worked out with great skill and is of no ordinary kind." — Civil Service 
 Gazette. 
 
 " A story of Irish life, free from burlesque and partisanship, yet amusingly 
 natiouai. . . There is plenty of ' go ' in the story." — Atheuceuiii. 
 
 Lorimer (Peter), D.D. 
 
 JOHN KNOX AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND : 
 
 His work in her Pulpit and his influence upon her Liturgy, Articles, 
 and Parties. A monograph founded upon several important papers 
 of Knox, never before published. Demy 8vo. 12s. 
 
 The author's wish has been to let Knox himself be seen and 
 heard in his book, and this all the more that it is wholly taken up 
 with the English section of his life and teaching. In drawing up 
 a fuller account than has hitherto been possible of what this extra- 
 ordinary Scotchman had been and had done in England, it seemed 
 an appropriate aim to endeavour to awaken among English people 
 a livelier interest in his person. 
 
42 A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
 Lover (Samuel), R.H.A. 
 
 THE LIFE OF SAMUEL LOVER, R.H.A. ; Artistic, 
 Literary, and Musical. With Selections from his Unpublished 
 Papers and Correspondence. By Bayle Bernard. 2 vols. Post 8vo. 
 With a Portrait, ixs. 
 
 Poet, novelist, dramatist, painter, etcher, composer, Samuel 
 Lover, in an age of speciality, was for more than a quarter of a 
 century one of its most notable exceptions. 
 
 Lower (Mark Antony), M.A., F.S.A. 
 
 WAYSIDE NOTES IN SCANDINAVIA. BeingNotes 
 of Travel in the North of Europe. Crown 8vo. 9j. 
 
 This volume is an account of researches prosecuted, during a 
 Tour in Scandinavia, in the Summer of 1873. It contains illustra- 
 tions of the History, Antiquities, Legendary Lore, and Social Con- 
 dition of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, from Ancient to Modem 
 Times. 
 
 Lyons (R. T.), Assistant-Surgeon, Bengal Army. 
 
 A TREATISE ON RELAPSING FEVER. Post 8vo. 
 
 " A practical work, thoroughly supported in its views by a series of remarkable 
 cases. " — StajLdard. 
 
 Macaulay (James), M.A., M.D., Edin. 
 
 IRELAND. A Tour of Observation, with Remarks on Irish 
 Public Questions. Crown 8vo. 7^. dd. 
 
 In the material wealth of Ireland are proofs of prosperity and 
 progress, yet its government remains the difficulty of statesmen. 
 On the disturbing elements — social, political, or religious — the 
 author endeavours to show how far each of these classes of questions 
 aifects the general condition of the country. 
 
 "We have rarely met a book on Ireland which for impartiality of criticism and 
 general accuracy of information could be so well recommended to the fair- 
 minded Irish reader." — Standard. 
 
 ■' A careful and instructive book. Full of facts, full of information, and full 
 of interest." — Litei-ary Churchjiian, 
 
 Mac Carthy (Denis Florence). 
 
 CALDERON'S DRAMAS. Translated from the Spanish. 
 Post Svo. Cloth, gilt edges. \os. 
 
 These translations have been made with the utmost care. The 
 measures are precisely imitated, and are contained in the exact 
 nrmiber of lines of the original. 
 
 "The lambent verse flows with an ease, spirit, and music perfectly natural, 
 liberal, and harmonious." — Spectator. 
 
 " It is impossible to speak too highly of this beautiful work.' — Mo7iih. 
 
Henry S, King &> Co.^s Publications. 43, 
 
 Mac Donald (George). 
 
 GUTTA-PERCHA AWILLIE, THE WORKING 
 GENIUS. With Nine Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Second 
 Edition. Crown 8vo. 3^. dd. 
 
 One of Messrs. Henry S. King and Co.'s 3.?. (>d. Books for the 
 Young. 
 
 " The cleverest child we know assures us she has read this story through five 
 times. Mr. Macdonald will, we are convinced, accept that verdict upon his 
 little work as final." — Spectator. 
 
 MALCOLM. A Novel. Second Edition. 3 vols. Crown 8vo. 
 3ii. dd. 
 
 *'■ Mr. Mac Donald has not only put into his (Malcolm's) mouth much of the 
 fine poetry of which the book is full, but has also given to his part active and 
 passive heroism of the most romantic kind. . . .Of the other characters, 
 Duncan, the aged and blind Highland piper, is admirably drawn. The inten- 
 sity of his love and hate, of his pride and prejudice, is brought out with the 
 utmost vividness in his relations with Malcolm and his master. . . . But 
 these few and slight blemishes are lost in the host of beautiful images with 
 which Mr. Mac Donald delights his readers."— /'a/^ Mail Gazette. 
 
 Mac Kenna (Stephen J.) 
 
 PLUCKY FELLOWS. A Book for Boys. With Six 
 Illustrations. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3j. hd. 
 
 One of Messrs. Henry S. King and Co.'s 3^. 6d. Books for the- 
 Young. 
 
 ' ' This is one of the ^^^-y best ' Books for Boys ' which have been issued this- 
 year." — Morning Advertiser. 
 "A thorough book for boys . . . written throughout in a manly straight- 
 forward manner that is sure to win the hearts of the children." — Londoti. Society. 
 
 AT SCHOOL WITH AN OLD DRAGOON. CrowTi 
 
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 ANIMAL MECHANICS. A Treatise on Terrestrial and 
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 THE STORY OF SJR EDWARD'S WIFE. A Novel. 
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 THE NEGLECTED QUESTION. Translated from the 
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Henry S. King &= Co.'s Publications. 45 
 
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 HALF-A-DOZEN DAUGHTERS. Crown 8vo. With a 
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 RESPONSIBILITY IN MENTAL DISEASE. Second 
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 THE ALPS OF ARABIA; or, Travels through Egypt, 
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 LIVES OF ENGLISH POPULAR LEADERS. 
 
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 Medley (Lieut. -Col. J. G.), Royal Engineers. 
 
 AN AU1*UMN TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES 
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 Morell (J. R.) 
 
 EUCLID SIMPLIFIED IN METHOD AND LAN- 
 GUAGE. Being a Manual of Geometiy on the French System. 
 
 The chief features of the work are : — The Separation of Theorems 
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 treated by themselves and at a later page — The Simpler and more 
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Henry S. King &^ Co,^s Publications. 47 
 
 Morley (Susan). 
 
 AILEEN FERRERS. A Novel. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. lis. 
 
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 terest." — Standard. 
 
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 8vo. 5i-. 
 
 " A most choice and charming selection. . . . The tales have an original 
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 up to the promise held out in its preface."— ^ctZi/i^-'Kjt'. 
 
 Newman (John Henry) D.D. 
 
 CHARACTERISTICS FROM THE WRITINGS OF 
 DR. J. H. NEWMAN. Being Selections, Personal, Historical, 
 Philosophical, and Religious, from his various Works. Arranged 
 with the Author's personal approval. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 
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 endowments which he has brought to the task. 
 
 Newman (Mrs.) 
 
 TOO LATE. A Novel. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. z\s. 
 
 "The plot is skilfully constructed, the characters are well conceived, and the 
 narrative moves to its conclusion without any waste of words. . . The tone is 
 healthy, in spite of its incidents, which will please the lovers of sensational 
 fiction." —Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
48 A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
 Noble (James Ashcroft). 
 
 THE PELICAN PAPERS. Reminiscences and Remains 
 of a Dweller in the Wilderness. Crown 8vo. ds. 
 
 "Written somewhat after the fashion of Mr. Helps's * Friends in Conndl.'" — 
 ILxainmer. 
 
 "Will well repay perusal by all thoughtful and intelligent readers^" — Liver- 
 fool Leader, 
 
 Norman People (The). 
 
 THE NORMAN PEOPLE, and their Existing Descendants 
 in the British Dominions and the United States of Ainerica. One 
 handsome volume. Svo. 2\s. 
 
 To prove the fallacy of some generally received maxims as to the 
 composition of the English nation ; to show that the Noiman 
 settlement at the Conquest consisted of something more than a 
 slight infusion of a foreign element ; that it involved the addition of 
 a numerous and mighty people, equally a half of the conquered 
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 counted by tens of millions in this country and the United States of 
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 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, A MEMOIR OF, 
 
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Henry S. King &= Co.'s Publications. 49 
 
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 DISCIPLINE AND DRILL. Four Lectures delivered to 
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 Parker (Joseph), D.D. 
 
 THE PARACLETE : An Essay on the Personality and 
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 Parr (Harriet). 
 
 ECHOES OF A FAMOUS YEAR. Crown Svo. Zs.(>d. 
 
 The story of the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71, told mainly for 
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 GOETHE'S FAUST. A New Translation in Rime. 
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 This is translated line for line in the metres of the original, and 
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 E 
 
50 A Descriptive Catalogue of 
 
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 SONGS OF LIFE AND DEATH. Crown 8vo. S^. 
 
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 THE DESERT PASTOR, JEAN JAROUSSEAU. 
 
 Translated from the French. By Colonel E. P. De L'Hoste. 
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 3J. bd. 
 
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 Penrice (Major J.), B.A. 
 
 A DICTIONARY AND GLOSSARY OF THE 
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 Intended to be of service to the beginner in mastering some of 
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 "The book is likely to answer its purpose in smoothing a beginner's road in 
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 Perceval (Rev. P.) 
 
 TAMIL PROVERBS, WITH THEIR ENGLISH 
 TRANSLATION. Containing upwards of Six Thousand 
 Proverbs. Third Edition. 8vo. Sewed, gj-. 
 
 Perrier (Amelia). 
 
 A WINTER IN MOROCCO. With Four Illustrations. 
 Crown 8vo. los. dii. 
 
 ** Well worth reading, and contains several excellent illustrations." — Hour. 
 
 "Miss Perrier is a very amusing writer. She has a good deal of humour, 
 sees the oddity and quaintness of Oriental life with a quick observant eye, and 
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 A GOOD MATCH. A Xovel. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 2is. 
 " Racy and lively." — Atluiiiruvt. 
 "This clever and amusing novel." — Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 Peschel (Dr.) 
 
 MANKIND : A Scientific Study of the Races and Distribution 
 of Man, considered in their Bodily Variations, Languages, Occupa- 
 tions, and Religions. 
 
Henry S. King 6^ Co.'s Publications. 5 1 
 
 Pettigrew (J. B.), M.D., F.R.S. 
 
 ANIMAL LOCOMOTION; or, Walking, Swimming, and 
 Flying. Second Edition. With 119 Illustrations, fj. 
 Volume of the International Scientific Series. 
 
 Piggot (John), F.S.A., F.R.G.S. 
 
 PERSIA; ANCIENT AND MODERN. Post 8vo. 
 
 \os. ad. 
 
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 Poushkin (Alexander Serguevitch). 
 
 RUSSIAN ROMANCE. Translated from the Tales of 
 Bell<in, &c. By Mrs. J. Buchan Telfer (nee Mouravieff). Cr. 8vo. 
 •]s. 6d. 
 
 Contents.— The Pistol Shot — The Snowstonn— The Under- 
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 .Spades, &c. 
 
 Power (Harriet). 
 
 OUR INVALIDS: HOW SHALL WE EMPLOY 
 AND AMUSE THEM ? Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 61/. 
 
 This little book has been written in order to meet the wants of 
 those who have not leisure to think over the best reply to the some- 
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 Powlett (Lieut. Norton), Royal Artillery. 
 
 EASTERN LEGENDS AND STORIES IN ENG- 
 LISH VERSE. Crown 8vo. 5^. 
 
 The originals of these poems have all been met with by the 
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 the fables and proverbs of all countries the same ideas, and often 
 the same way of expressing them, are found. 
 
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 THE EXPANSE OF HEAVEN. A Series of Essays on 
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 STREAMS fROM HIDDEN SOURCES. Cr. 8vo. (>s. 
 
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 READY-MONEY MORTIBOY. A Matter-of-Fact Stoiy. 
 
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 "A very interesting and uncommon ^tory"— -Vanity Fair. 
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 Reaney (Mrs. G. S.) 
 
 WAKING AND -WORKING; OR, FROM GIRL- 
 HOOD TO WOMANHOOD. With a FrontisiMece. Cro\™ 
 Svo. 5J-. 
 
 One of Messrs. Henry S. King and Co.'s <^s. Books for the 
 Young. 
 
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 SUNBEAM WILLIE, AND OTHER STORIES, for 
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 REGINALD BRAMBLE. A Cynic of the Nineteenth 
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Henry ^ King &= Co.'s Publications. 53 
 
 Ribot (Professor Th.) 
 
 CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH PSYCHOLOGY. 
 
 Large post 8vo. <js. 
 
 An analysis of the views and opinions of the following meta- 
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 hold in regard to the mental faculties ?" 
 
 Robertson (The Late Rev. F. W.), M.A. 
 
 THE LATE REV. F. W. ROBERTSON, M.A., LIFE 
 AND LETTERS OF. Edited by the Rev. Stopford Brooke, 
 M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. 
 
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 THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN RACE. 
 
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